U.S. ramps up fuel exports to Cuba’s private sector: Reuters
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U.S. suppliers have shipped approximately 30,000 barrels of fuel to Cuba’s private sector this year to date, according to documents and shipping data viewed by Reuters, suggesting a Trump administration plan to give private business a leg up over state-run enterprise is well underway.
Since January, the United States has been enforcing a de facto oil blockade against its long-time foe in a bid to starve Cuba of fuel and pressure its government into submission.
But it has made an exception for the Communist-run country’s small but vital private sector.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said authorizing those fuel exports fits with a broader Trump administration policy “entirely designed to put the private sector and individual private Cubans – not affiliated with the government, not affiliated with the military – in a privileged position.”
The volume of fuel imported since early February by the private sector - around 30,000 barrels, or approximately 1.27 million gallons (4.8 million liters) - is equivalent to just over one tenth of a typical medium-size fuel tanker’s capacity, a fraction of the country’s needs.
Cuba had until recently required some 100,000 barrels per day of imported fuel to feed its power plants and meet regular demand from vehicles and jets.
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