"In a social media post on Friday, Diaz-Canel said that under a false and baseless pretext, Trump plans to suffocate Cuba's economy by slapping tariffs on countries that sovereignly trade oil with it. This new measure reveals the fascist, criminal and genocidal nature of a clique that has hijacked the interests of the American people for purely personal ends, he said, in an apparent allusion to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a Cuban American and a known anti-Cuban government hawk."
"Cuba, which is suffering rolling electricity blackouts blamed on fuel shortages, was cut off from critical supplies of Venezuelan oil after the US abducted Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in a bloody military night raid on the capital, Caracas, earlier this month. At least 32 members of Cuba's armed forces and intelligence agencies were killed in the January 3 attack."
The US president signed an executive order threatening additional tariffs on countries that sell oil to Cuba, citing an unusual and extraordinary threat to US national security. Cuba's president denounced the measure as an attempt to suffocate the sanctions-hit economy and labeled it fascist, criminal and genocidal. Cuba has been experiencing rolling electricity blackouts blamed on fuel shortages after being cut off from Venezuelan oil following a US operation in Caracas. Cuba's foreign minister declared an international emergency in response, and Venezuela condemned the move as a violation of international law.
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