Trump threatens Cuba and calls for a deal | EUROtoday

As of: January 11, 2026 4:26 p.m

After the US motion in Venezuela, President Trump declared that Cuba would quickly fall too. Now he’s threatening the communist authorities: If it doesn’t conform to a deal, Cuba will not obtain oil from Venezuela.

US President Donald Trump is placing strain on economically struggling Cuba and calling on the communist authorities to “make a deal before it is too late”. Cuba will not obtain any oil from Venezuela or any cash sooner or later, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. Trump didn’t write what precisely an settlement ought to encompass or what would occur if Cuba doesn’t conform to a deal.

Cuba instantly rejected Trump’s risk. Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez accused the US authorities of legal habits that endangers world peace. He wrote on the Internet platform X that his nation wouldn’t enable itself to be blackmailed by the USA. Cuba has the precise to purchase oil on markets the place that is attainable with out US interference.

Trump had additionally reposted a number of posts on Truth Social wherein customers had been excited a couple of attainable regime change in Cuba caused by the USA. One of the posts jokingly introduced that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio – the son of Cuban immigrants – would change into Cuba’s international minister. “Sounds good to me!” commented Trump.

Venezuela provides oil to the USA

Cuba was an in depth ally of Venezuela for many years and sourced a lot of its oil from there. After the seize of long-time head of state Nicolás Maduro by US elite troopers, Trump urged interim President Delcy Rodríguez to ship Venezuelan oil to the United States.

In latest weeks, US items have repeatedly taken management of oil tankers within the Caribbean. Trump had introduced that he would impose a “complete and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers traveling to and from Venezuela.”

Cuba would additionally fall quickly, Trump stated per week in the past. The communist-ruled island off the coast of the US state of Florida has lengthy been within the US sights. However, army intervention in Cuba was not needed, Trump determined per week in the past. Without oil from Venezuela, communist rule in Havana would collapse anyway.