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US Oil Embargo Pushes Cuba Toward 'Point of No Return,' Analysts Warn
US sanctions cut 75% of Cuba’s oil imports, causing fuel shortages that have triggered blackouts, transport suspensions, and a 70% tourism revenue decline, officials said.
- On February 18, 2026, U.S. measures cut crude shipments to Cuba, crippling the island's electricity grid and causing shortages for nearly 10 million people.
- The Trump administration declared Cuba `an unusual and extraordinary threat`, cut Venezuelan oil supplies, and threatened tariffs on Mexico to pressure fuel suppliers.
- Earlier this month, Havana suspended jet fuel supplies, prompting airlines like Air Canada, WestJet, and Transat to repatriate passengers and suspend flights; two hotels on the peninsula closed, and the Habanos festival was canceled.
- Workers and operators report government-run hospitals cutting services, patients and schoolchildren affected, while Sherrit International paused mining and the tourism sector faces collapse.
- Cuba does not appear to have remaining allies willing to supply fuel, and Alejandro Morejon, 53-year-old tourism guide, said, `There is just total uncertainty.
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