WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump urged Cuba on Sunday (Jan 11) to “make a deal” or face unspecified penalties, warning that the movement 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 Reality Social channel. “I strongly counsel they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.”
His remarks come per 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 grow to be the president of now communist-ruled Cuba.
Trump shared that put up with the remark: “Sounds good to me!”
In his personal put up quickly afterwards, Trump mentioned that “Cuba lived, for a few years, on massive quantities of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba offered ‘Safety Companies’ 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 does not want safety anymore from the thugs and extortionists who held them hostage for thus a few years.”
Beneath 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.
