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Cuba to protect essential services as US moves to cut off oil supply
Bangkok Post
|February 08, 2026
Cuba detailed a wide-ranging plan on Friday to protect essential services and ration fuel as the communist-run government dug in its heels in defiance of a US effort to cut off oil supply to the Caribbean island.
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BRACING FOR IMPACT: People wait for transportation as Cubans prepare for fuel scarcity measures after US tightened the oil supply blockade, in Havana on Friday.
The rationing measures are the first to be announced since President Donald Trump threatened to slap tariffs on the US-bound products of any country exporting fuel to Cuba and suggested hard times ahead for Cubans already suffering severe shortages of food, fuel and medicine.
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