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Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/05/14/Cuba-says-oil-reserves-totally-drained/9311778746907/
56•thm•1h ago

Comments

alterom•27m ago
It's not like one needs to say blames here, as if it's just an accusation and there could be another cause for that.

We also have no reason to doubt that Cuba has run out of fuel as a result of an embargo on fuel when the officials say so. It's not a surprise; it was the expected outcome and the entire point of the embargo.

A better title would be: "Cuba jas run out of fuel due to the US embargo".

reactordev•21m ago
Either way, no bueno.
davydm•17m ago
functionally the same - and more accurate to use the original title, as Cuba is the one doing the blaming. I don't know why you're standing up for this - it's more bad behavior from a country that sells itself as the savior, and it's not new - they've been doing this (whatever they need to, to change regimes) in other countries for decades. It's shameless bullying, and completely contravenes "the rules" about how to interact with other countries.
jmclnx•10m ago
>It's not like one needs to say blames here, as if it's just an accusation and there could be another cause for that

The US started the Oil Embargo and AFAIK it is still on-goimg. Cuba is running out of fuel. To me 2+2=4, so I say blame can be placed on the US :)

dgacmu•6m ago
I believe the person you're replying to is criticizing the choice of title, by noting that the phrase "blames" is suggestive that there might be other causes, when there clearly is not (which they agree with you about).
beepbooptheory•4m ago
[delayed]
mlmonkey•20m ago
I don't really understand the point of the embargo. I am an American.

Picking on a tiny country like Cuba serves no purpose. The elites in Cuba are not going to suffer; the normal people will.

Instead of acting like a bully, I wish our government would be more magnanimous and just drop the embargo.

jpadkins•16m ago
can't have communists in the western hemisphere. They give up authoritarian communism, we will be magnanimous.
deadbolt•15m ago
Communism must be absolutely incredible for such a small country to be such a threat to a superpower.
kelseyfrog•9m ago
We must rhetorically cast our enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak."[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urfascism

davydm•16m ago
And, for an encore - stop all the other stupid shit. The rest of the world (and the US) is paying the price for little trump-tantrums, like the one against Iran. He's not a good international leader. He's not even a reasonable at-home president.
ceejayoz•13m ago
> I don't really understand the point of the embargo.

Making sure Florida's Cuban-American community keeps voting Republican.

The end result is going to be them being another China-dependent colony. https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/as-the-us-starves-it-of...

WaxProlix•17m ago
What we're doing to the Cuban people with this blockade is criminal. I don't expect to see justice in my lifetime. What a miserable state of affairs.
ReptileMan•8m ago
They had 70 years to get rid of the communists. In the case of people living under dictatorships I am victim blamer.
pasquinelli•3m ago
doesn't surviving a 70 year embargo make you question how bad the communists really are?
mitthrowaway2•2m ago
Yet you guys were happy to open up to trade with China in 1972. Why the double standard?
mothballed•2m ago
In a vacuum sure, but the communists replaced Batista, who was arguably as bad or worse at the time of the revolution. In the long run they'd have probably been better under Batista because being America's bitch is better for the health of Caribbean nations than being the Bitch of USSR/China and the enemy of America while you haul your goods home in a donkey cart like it's the 19th century. But it wasn't knowable at the time the die was cast.
oceanplexian•4m ago
Allowing Cuba to trade with every other country in the entire world except the United States is criminal?
Manuel_D•3m ago
The US is not enforcing a blockade, it's an embargo. The US and other countries are refusing to trade with Cuba, but plenty of other countries are and do trade with Cuba. Cuba is not entitled to trade with the US.

A blockade is when a country stops traffic, from entering a country's ports. It's an act of war, and a totally different thing from an embargo.

louwrentius•13m ago
The humanitarian impact of this embargo is just one of the many stains on the USA that can never be removed.
RiverCrochet•12m ago
Cuba went through something similar in 1991:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Period

wiradikusuma•5m ago
From the perspective of a layman, isn't this bullying? Don't we suppose to have the UN where nations.. unite?
asHqar•3m ago
The US starves anyone it does not like from natural resources and subsequently makes them buy US natural resources. It has done this to the EU, now it is trying to do it to China and Cuba.

This way they can control everyone.

ricardobeat•2m ago
Isn’t Cuba prime estate for solar, maybe wind too? A little gift from China could go a long way.

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