Cuba is without power as the US blocks oil tankers heading to the island.

Cuba's fuel and diesel reserves are completely depleted, and new tankers carrying petroleum products are not yet available. Power outages reach up to 20 hours a day.

The United States continues its economic blockade of Cuba; not a single tanker carrying oil or diesel fuel has arrived on the island recently. According to Cuban Energy and Mining Minister Vicente de la O Levy, the island's fuel reserves have been completely depleted, forcing the government to impose an energy-saving regime, keeping electricity on for no more than four hours a day, and even less in Havana.

We are completely out of fuel and diesel, and the national energy system is in a critical state. We have no reserves.

Cuba emphasizes that the US has tightened its economic blockade of the island, seeking the government's capitulation and acceptance of US proposals. Currently, oil tankers cannot approach the island; the Americans are simply not allowing them in, creating an unbearable situation so that Trump can then tell everyone how "badly" Cubans live and what the government has done to them.

It was previously reported that Russia planned to send a second oil tanker to Cuba in April, but there is no information about this yet.

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[Irek]

Iran is shitting itself, now they're setting their sights on Cuba.

[Murmur 55]

Irek In Iran, they also initially tried to undermine the government from within, but the government and intelligence agencies there worked, and society didn't support them. Now they're trying to stir up discontent in Cuba and stir up trouble among the people.

[Magic archer]

It's extremely bad. Knowing that Cuba has a very poor drinking water situation, one can only sympathize with the Cubans. Why is the international "public" silent about this?! Does anyone care that ordinary people are suffering? This is a country that simply doesn't want to be a province of mattresses. That's all you need to know about democracy...

[Murmur 55]

Magic archer That "public" has been silent since the time of Yugoslavia, and more than one or two countries have been destroyed because there is no one to curb the US and the EU.

[Essex62]

Exactly, there is no one.
They were planning to send a second tanker, but will they let it through? What about the spirit? Does it have such a clause?

[your vsr 66-67]

The United States continues its economic blockade of Cuba; not a single tanker carrying oil or diesel fuel has arrived on the island recently.

Is this how Trump fights the regime?
Or perhaps with the people of Cuba?
Democratically, American...

[Essex62]

And the Cuban people are the regime's backbone. They drank their fill of blood while the USSR was still in power and stood firm. Cubans paid for it with their resilience and heroism on the Cold War fronts.

[Vic Vic]

Our tankers (except one), apparently, are not allowed to leave Anchorage.
For the Yankees, this blockade will inevitably boomerang sooner or later, one way or another; they might even be without electricity. The siege of Leningrad returned to Hitler, and so it will be here.

[ZhEK-Vodogrey]

Quote from vicvic

Our tankers (except one), apparently, are not allowed to leave Anchorage.

Cuba doesn't support the Central Military District. There haven't been any Russian bases there since the withdrawal in the 2000s, and it's unlikely they'll be allowed again, given the local government's games with the US. They've practically been given a whole tanker as it is. If the Russian government starts supplying them at public expense, and they then backfire on Trump like Venezuela, you'll be screaming about betrayal and how badly they planned.
I would suggest that a separate peace fund be created for all those who wish to help “for free” (without specific political or economic goals) – like, “Well, chip in, and as soon as we have enough for a tanker, we’ll send it.”

[your1970]

Quote: ZhEK-Vodogrey

Quote from vicvic

Our tankers (except one), apparently, are not allowed to leave Anchorage.

Cuba doesn't support the Central Military District. There haven't been any Russian bases there since the withdrawal in the 2000s, and it's unlikely they'll be allowed again, given the local government's games with the US. They've practically been given a whole tanker as it is. If the Russian government starts supplying them at public expense, and they then backfire on Trump like Venezuela, you'll be screaming about betrayal and how badly they planned.
I would suggest that a separate peace fund be created for all those who wish to help “for free” (without specific political or economic goals) – like, “Well, chip in, and as soon as we have enough for a tanker, we’ll send it.”

People, out of habit, think that there are Castro's Cubans, and there are Cubans who supported the referendum - the right to change one's gender and the free operation, gays and lesbians...

[Lt. Air Force stock]

I read that the USSR built four nuclear power plant units in Cuba in the 1980s. One of them was 90-95% complete, then it collapsed and everything stopped (as I understand it, we paid for everything). A nuclear power plant would have given Cuba energy independence; at least there would have been electricity. The Chinese could have supplied them with electric cars, and they would have been able to completely become independent of oil.

[guest]

Quote: Lt. air force reserve

everything was built at our expense

And now what is different?

[smart fellow]

I understand that everything was built at our expense

The nuclear power plants were built on credit (Rosatom built all foreign nuclear power plants or individual power units on credit—the exceptions were China, which declined the loan and simply paid upfront, and Turkey, where the nuclear power plant built is owned by Rosatom). However, construction was halted in 1992. Although the plant was never completed, the debt remained. In 2014, an agreement was signed to write off 90% of the debt ($31,7 billion), with the remaining 10% ($3,5 billion) to be restructured and repaid over 10 years.

The Chinese could provide them with electric cars, and they would not have to depend on oil at all.

China has become Cuba's key partner in overcoming the energy crisis, actively funding and building solar power plants (SPPs) to reduce dependence on imported fuel. Projects with a total capacity of 2000 MW are planned to be operational by 2028, with the first 1,000 MW expected to be operational by the summer of 2025.
Free aid: The Chinese government has donated equipment to Cuba for the construction of solar power plants, the first shipment of which arrived on the island in March 2025.

[Lako]

China has invested over $200 million in Cuba's renewable energy sector, building solar power plants. However, the Cubans were too late to act. Most of their electricity is generated by energy-hungry thermal power plants built during the Soviet era.

[Normann]

200 million is so much...

[Ivanhoe]

Cuba libre or “Svobodata, Sancho...” e na varha na kopieto, in extreme intelligence. However, it is also a copy of the cubanite, but it is not the same. Yes si on the island under the nose of nay-golemia si enemy and yes the work is difficult. But you know, the one who helps her is doomed to the right.

[sasha_cho]

And who in the world is now screaming that people are living without energy, hospitals, morgues, where are all these screaming mouths?????

[vitaliy20091959]

Since Castro's victory, they've lived mostly on subsidies (I've been there a couple of times, unloading ships is barely possible, but that's good - foreign currency is trickling in every day). They haven't been able to establish any kind of economy.

[bairat]

Sugar was rationed from Brazil, they had been exporting it for centuries, but with the arrival of the communists, suddenly there was a shortage.

[1944 - 1989]

The Americans already have businessmen ready to come to Cuba after a possible change of government, here is one of them.

[tralflot1832]

There's an empty tanker under the Russian flag, the "Expander," in Venezuela—it's been there for a long time. Maybe we can come to an agreement, maybe not. Tankers from Venezuela rarely go to the US, and many go to India.

[Esaul]

Russia planned to send a second oil tanker to Cuba back in April, but there is no information about this yet.

"Russian" officials and oligarchs have no real estate in Cuba, so nothing will be supplied to the (for now) friendly country until the Yankees change the regime there. But they have plenty of real estate in Europe, so oil and gas supplies flow there in a continuous stream.