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The US will allow a tanker of crude oil from Russia to dock in Cuba, easing the oil blockade that has been in place since the removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in January.
The tanker Anatoly Kolodkin, which has been sanctioned by the US, is on its way to the Caribbean island, ship-monitoring data reveal.
The vessel left Russia’s Primorsk port carrying some 650,000 barrels of crude.
According to The New York Times, it’s unclear why the ship is being let through.
President Trump has effectively prevented all oil shipments to Cuba, in a move to pressure the government in Havana and, ultimately, cause its downfall.
In recent weeks, the whole of Cuba has been left without electricity as the US oil embargo pushes the country’s national grid to breaking point.
A majority of the system went offline on 4 March, and then the entire grid went down for unexplained reasons.
Although power outages are common in Cuba, there had never been two complete failures in a week until now.
Senior members of the Trump administration, as well as Trump himself, have signaled their intention to topple the communist regime that has governed Cuba since the 1950s.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, himself the son of Cuban exiles, has made clear his support for regime change, and President Trump repeated his call for a “friendly takeover” of the island, before adding, “It may not be a friendly takeover.”
The US Attorney’s office in South Florida is reported to be “preparing indictments against Cuba’s political and military leadership—including members of the Castro family—on a range of possible charges related to alleged violent crime, drug-trafficking, immigration, and espionage.”
The Trump administration is also said to be discussing roles in a future Cuban administration with “wealthy Republican donors of Cuban ancestry.”
The favored approach is to achieve regime change with a minimum of upheaval, avoiding a humanitarian crisis, so that American money can flow back into Cuba.
“We control our hemisphere, and we have the ability to do this,” an official told The Atlantic.
“We want these hostile regimes out of our hemisphere, and we’re going to set up the business community, because we don’t believe in diplomacy.”
“An island that was once the crown jewel of the Caribbean has plunged into extreme poverty and darkness,” the State Department said in a statement.
“This is the tragic result of over sixty years of Communist rule.”
While the Cuban regime have now entered into talks with the US, they have maintained the President’s status is not up for negotiation.
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