Reasons of Cuba Editorial Staff<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While Cuba faces a complex situation in its electrical power system, with blackouts affecting the daily lives of its population, an underlying cause stands out with undeniable starkness: the United States\u2019 economic, commercial, and financial blockade and the persecution of fuel. This blockade, far from being an abstract policy, carries out a systematic campaign against the arrival of fuel to the island and denies access to vital parts and technologies, deliberately strangling a sector essential for national development and stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Donald Trump administration is currently evaluating the imposition of a total blockade on oil imports from Cuba, an extreme measure that would seek to precipitate a comprehensive energy collapse and regime change through energy starvation, according to an alleged leak to Politico. This escalation, strongly denounced by Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fern\u00e1ndez de Coss\u00edo, is not an isolated incident, but rather the culmination of a deliberate policy of economic strangulation and the main cause of the critical state of the national power grid, whose blackouts have affected the population in recent days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis attempt is a brutal assault against a peaceful nation that poses no threat whatsoever to the United States,\u201d declared Fern\u00e1ndez de Coss\u00edo, who emphasized that such measures are \u201cirrefutable proof that the economic hardships faced by the Cuban people are primarily caused and orchestrated from Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
History repeats itself: The specter of 2019 and the irresponsibility of a failed policy<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Deputy Minister recalled the historical precedent: in 2019, figures like Marco Rubio and John Bolton already promoted a similar measure, managing to get Trump to order it, before US national security agencies blocked it, deeming it \u201cirresponsible and dangerous.\u201d The reactivation of this threat in 2026 not only demonstrates the obsession of sectors of the American far right, but also the cyclical and intensifying nature of a hostility that ignores the human cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A possible total ban on oil would only exponentially worsen a crisis already created by the blockade. The recent severe power outages in Cuba are a direct symptom of an energy infrastructure damaged by six decades of economic embargo. This link is irrefutably demonstrated in Cuba\u2019s Report on UN Resolution 78\/7 (2025), which quantifies the damage to the sector:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Financial and logistical strangulation: The blockade targets oil tankers, increases freight costs through extraterritorial sanctions, and hinders fuel payments. This generates chronic instability in the supply of oil and diesel, essential for thermoelectric plants and backup generators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Technological Suffocation: The report highlights that losses in the energy sector exceeded $496 million in a single year, primarily due to the inability to import spare parts, control equipment, and modern technology for power plant maintenance. Companies from third countries refuse to sell to Cuba for fear of US retaliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Domino Effect: The combination of fuel shortages and the shutdown of thermoelectric plants due to a lack of spare parts forces the overloading of other generating units, leading to mandatory technical shutdowns and ultimately resulting in blackouts that affect homes, hospitals, schools, and the national economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Policy of Collapse: Beyond the Economics<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seeking a \u201ctotal oil blockade\u201d after years of obstructing access to spare parts is a policy that transcends the economic sphere: it is a hybrid warfare strategy targeting the basic well-being of the population. By attacking energy, they are attacking food and medicine refrigeration, water pumping, lighting, connectivity, and productivity. It is an attempt to generate social unrest through artificially induced suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The warning by Fern\u00e1ndez de Coss\u00edo is framed within a broader context: the resistance of the Global South against the aggressive unilateralism of a Republican administration that recycles failed policies. The international community has condemned this blockade 31 times at the UN, recognizing it as the main obstacle to Cuba\u2019s development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The threat of a total oil embargo is confirmation of a textbook example of strangulation. It demonstrates that the power outages are not an isolated technical problem, but rather the calculated result of a broad-spectrum economic war. Cuba\u2019s response, as the deputy minister pointed out, will be that of a peaceful but sovereign nation, one that resists and builds, even in the dark, in the face of aggression. The light that the blockade attempts to extinguish is precisely the one that international solidarity and the tenacity of the Cuban people are determined to keep burning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IMAGE CREDIT: Redacci\u00f3n Razones de Cuba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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