January 24, 2026
The Trump administration is considering new measures to promote regime change in Cuba, including a possible total blockade on the country's oil imports, according to Politico, citing three sources familiar with the plan.
Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío denounced the recent leaks and speculation on Friday.
The Cuban diplomat described this intention as a brutal assault against a peaceful nation that poses no threat whatsoever to the United States, noting that such measures are irrefutable proof that the economic hardships faced by the Cuban people are primarily caused and orchestrated from Washington.
He recalled that figures like Marco Rubio and John Bolton had already tricked Trump in 2019 into ordering a similar blockade, an action that was halted at the time by national security agencies that deemed this course of unjustifiable confrontation irresponsible and dangerous.
The reactivation of these threats in 2026 demonstrates the intensification of a hostile policy that seeks the country's energy collapse through international piracy. This warning comes in a context of sovereign resistance from the Global South against the aggressive unilateralism of the Republican administration.