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Cuba says oil and diesel supplies have run dry under U.S. sanctions

Cnbc · · 366 words · By Chloe Taylor
Energy crisis Humanitarian aid U.S.-Cuba Relations
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11 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Cuba has run out of oil and diesel”
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Multiple independent web search results (CNBC and other news reports) confirm that the Cuban Energy Minister stated the country has run out of fuel oil and diesel.
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web search NEUTRAL — Situated at the convergence of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean, Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula, south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola, and nort…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba
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web search NEUTRAL — 5 days ago · Cuba, country of the West Indies, the largest island of the archipelago, and one of the more-influential states of the Caribbean region. A multicultural, largely urban nation, it has been…
https://www.britannica.com/place/Cuba
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · Discover Cuba. Explore Cuba facts, culture, history & comprehensive country profile with maps, statistics & research resources for students & travelers.
https://www.countryreports.org/country/Cuba.htm
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“Cuban Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy said on state media... 'the only thing we have is gas from our wells, where production has grown'”
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Two separate reports confirm Minister Vicente de la O Levy's statements regarding the lack of fuel and the growth of gas production from wells.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O Levy, appeared this Wednesday on the Round Table to provide an overview of the National Electroenergy System (SEN) and announce progress in oil and ga…
https://en.cibercuba.com/noticias/2026-04-23-u1-e208574-s270…
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web search NEUTRAL — Cuban Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy told state media the island nation has run out of fuel oil and diesel. Protests broke out in Havana on Wednesday as blackouts in the capital continued ...
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/cuba-oil-diesel-fuel-us-sanc…
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web search NEUTRAL — On Wednesday, Cuba's Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de La O Levy, openly acknowledged the severe fuel shortage crippling the island. During a special address concerning the dire status of the N…
https://www.cubaheadlines.com/articles/329165
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“A U.S. blockade has blocked shipments of oil into the country since January”
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Multiple sources report that the Trump administration blocked energy shipments to Cuba starting in January, including a specific mention of a social media post by Trump.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Trump administration has blocked energy shipments to Cuba since January as part of a strategy to force the Communist government into submission. Mr. Trump said in a January social media post: “THE…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/us/politics/trump-threats…
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web search NEUTRAL — Cuba has completely run out of diesel and fuel oil, the country’s energy minister said on Wednesday, as Havana faces its worst rolling blackouts in decades amid a US blockade that has strangled the is…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/14/cuba-us-energy…
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web search NEUTRAL — He has also blocked Venezuelan oil shipments to the island and threatened tariffs on any country exporting fuel to the island.Garcia’s hotel has had to lay off half of its staff since the oil blockade…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/leave-cuba-tourism-worke…
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“prompting blackouts lasting up to 22 hours a day in parts of the Cuban capital Havana”
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Multiple sources report severe blackouts in Havana, with durations mentioned as 20, 24, and even over 30 hours, supporting the claim of blackouts lasting up to 22 hours.
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web search NEUTRAL — Over the past two days, Cubans living in Havana have been enduring yet another over 30-hour-long blackout as the ailing communist regime finds itself unable to consistently provide power to the Cuban …
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2026/05/13/heated-pr…
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web search NEUTRAL — "It was about time Havana experienced its share of blackouts. Unfortunately, for all of Cuba, but provinces like Cienfuegos have been living in this agony for a while now, with blackouts lasting 20 to…
https://en.cibercuba.com/noticias/2025-03-02-u1-e207888-s270…
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web search NEUTRAL — This incident occurs during a severe electricity crisis in Cuba in 2026. On the same day, May 6, Havana experienced power outages lasting up to 24 hours, with a peak disruption of 403 MW at 11:10 p.m.…
https://www.cubaheadlines.com/articles/328492
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“protests broke out in the city on Wednesday evening, with hundreds crowding the streets, blocking roads with garbage and shouting 'turn on the lights.'”
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The provided search results for protests mention Miami (Little Havana), China, and Hong Kong, but do not provide evidence of protests specifically in Havana on a Wednesday evening involving garbage blocking roads.
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web search NEUTRAL — Hundreds of people packed SW 8th Street in Little Havana in solidarity with the growing protests in Cuba Sunday. SW 8th Street was shut down from 32nd Avenue to 37th Avenue as the crowd grew during th…
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/hundreds-of-protesters-take-to…
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web search NEUTRAL — Residents held late-night demonstrations against draconian "zero-COVID" lockdown measures after 10 people were killed in an apartment fire. Protests in China are extremely rare.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/26/1139273138/china-protests-cov…
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web search NEUTRAL — Hong Kong’s lunchtime protests expanded on Friday from the Central and Tai Koo business districts to more locations such as Causeway Bay and Wong Chuk Hang, with hundreds of participants at each spot …
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3037877/…
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“De la O Levy warned Cuba has 'no reserves' and that its national grid is in a 'critical state'”
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Reports confirm that Minister Vicente de la O Levy acknowledged the severe fuel shortage and the critical state of the National Electric System.
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web search NEUTRAL — Energy (from Ancient Greek ἐνέργεια (enérgeia) 'activity') is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the capacity to do work and in the form o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy
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web search NEUTRAL — May 1, 2026 · Energy, in physics, the capacity for doing work. It may exist in potential, kinetic, thermal, electrical, chemical, nuclear, or various other forms. There are, moreover, heat and work—i.…
https://www.britannica.com/science/energy
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web search NEUTRAL — Scientists define energy as the ability to do work. Modern civilization is possible because people have learned how to change energy from one form to another and then use it to do work.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/what-is-energy/
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“Cuba had been heavily dependent on oil from Venezuela”
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While the provided Wikipedia snippets are generic, the specific news reports regarding the 'US oil blockade' and the impact of the removal of Maduro confirm Cuba's heavy reliance on Venezuelan oil shipments.
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web search NEUTRAL — Situated at the convergence of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean, Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula, south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola, and nort…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba
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web search NEUTRAL — 5 days ago · Cuba, country of the West Indies, the largest island of the archipelago, and one of the more-influential states of the Caribbean region. A multicultural, largely urban nation, it has been…
https://www.britannica.com/place/Cuba
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · Discover Cuba. Explore Cuba facts, culture, history & comprehensive country profile with maps, statistics & research resources for students & travelers.
https://www.countryreports.org/country/Cuba.htm
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“the communist-run Caribbean island has effectively been cut off since early January when the U.S. launched a military operation to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro”
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Wikipedia explicitly confirms 'Operation Absolute Resolve' on January 3, 2026, where the U.S. launched a military strike to capture Nicolás Maduro.
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web search NEUTRAL — On 3 January 2026, the United States launched a military strike in Venezuela and captured incumbent Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. [12][13] The US operation, codenamed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_interventio…
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web search NEUTRAL — The U.S. military wanted to conduct the operation during the holiday period because many government officials were on vacation and because significant numbers of Venezuelan military personnel were ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/us/politics/trump-capture…
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web search NEUTRAL — President Donald J. Trump today announced the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, following a successful overnight joint U.S. military extraction in Venezuela's capital of Caracas.
https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/437043…
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“The Trump administration has called Cuba's government 'an unusual and extraordinary threat'”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm this specific designation by the Trump administration.
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“In a Truth Social post on Tuesday, Trump said talks between the U.S. and Cuba would happen”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding a Truth Social post about talks between the U.S. and Cuba.
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“The U.S. State Department said Wednesday that it was willing to provide $100 million in aid to Cuba”
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