WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump urged Cuba on Sunday (Jan 11) to “make a deal” or face unspecified penalties, warning that the circulation of Venezuelan oil and cash to Havana would now cease.
“THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO!” Trump mentioned on his Fact Social channel. “I strongly counsel they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.”
His remarks come every week after US forces seized Venezuela’s authoritarian chief Nicolas Maduro in a nighttime operation in Caracas that killed dozens of Venezuelan and Cuban safety forces.
Earlier on Sunday, Trump reposted a message suggesting that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio may turn out to be the president of now communist-ruled Cuba.
Trump shared that publish with the remark: “Sounds good to me!”
In his personal publish quickly afterwards, Trump mentioned that “Cuba lived, for a few years, on giant quantities of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba offered ‘Safety Providers’ for the final two Venezuelan dictators, BUT NOT ANYMORE!”
“Most of these Cubans are DEAD from final week’s U.S.A. assault, and Venezuela would not want safety anymore from the thugs and extortionists who held them hostage for thus a few years.”
Below a US commerce embargo, Havana since 2000 has more and more relied on Venezuelan oil offered as a part of a deal struck with Maduro’s predecessor Hugo Chavez.
