Cuba In Island Wide Power Outage

Cuba said on Friday that it has entered into talks with the United States with the hope of defusing the crisis. Trump has said in recent weeks that Cuba is on the verge of collapse and is eager to make a deal with the United States.

Cuba has received only two small vessels carrying oil imports this year, according to LSEG ship tracking data seen by Reuters Monday.

The first tanker discharged fuel in January at the Havana port coming from Mexico, which was a regular supplier to the island until then.

The second vessel, from Jamaica, discharged liquefied petroleum gas - known as cooking gas - in February.

Venezuela, once Cuba's main oil supplier, has sent no fuel to the island this year.

Venezuela's state company PDVSA last month loaded gasoline in a tanker that it had previously used to transport fuel to Cuba, but the vessel has not left Venezuelan waters, PDVSA documents and tanker monitoring data showed.

No large imports have entered this year through Cuba's main hubs of Matanzas or Moa, which typically handle crude for refining and fuel oil for power generation, according to satellite images analyzed by TankerTrackers.com.

The ports of Havana and Cienfuegos also have not had import activity in more than a month, it added.

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Editor: This war with Cuba should have ended decades ago.  Instead, Trump has escalated it, cutting off Cuba from it's only fuel source, Venezuela.  It's not the job of the US to terrorize populations of other countries, despite what foreign policy seems to dictate.  This outage isn't the fault of another countries political system, it sits squarely on Trump's shoulders.  At some point, the rest of the world is going to get tired of his global intervention policy.  That won't be good for any of us.