KEY POINTS

The U.S. Treasury Department has made clear that Cuba is not allowed to take delivery of Russian crude.

The warning comes at a time when two tankers carrying Russian oil and gas are thought to be on their way to Havana.

The fuel-starved Caribbean island is facing its biggest test since the collapse of the Soviet Union under a U.S. oil blockade.

  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    16 hours ago

    The UN has been condemning the US embargo on cuba for nearly every session in the past couple decades and it’s nearly always only the US and Israel voting against it. But the US has a veto so it never passes…

    Here’s the latest one