Given the catastrophic state of the Cuban economy, and the fact that there is no solution without including the USA, he will ask for the dismantling of the regime.

By Jorge Castañeda (Confidencial)

HAVANA TIMES – Miguel Diaz-Canel, the hand-picked president of Cuba, has just announced that the island has not received fuel since the month of December. This means, among other things, that neither Russia nor Mexico delivered a single barrel of oil during January. It also means that Mexico, at least — but obviously Putin as well — has complied with Donald Trump’s instructions to suspend crude shipments to Cuba.

This clarifies the disagreement that arose between Trump and President Claudia Sheinbaum. As will be recalled, he stated a few days ago that he told Sheinbaum to stop supplying oil to the island. She said they had not spoken regarding Cuba, and that Marco Rubio and Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente had spoken on the issue. Euphemisms aside, Trump obviously told the truth and Sheinbaum did not. It is not the first time, nor will it be the last.

There is another divergence regarding possible contacts or negotiations between Cuba and the United States. Trump has said there are talks; Cuba’s Foreign Ministry (MINREX) claims the opposite, setting aside technical conversations such as those that have always existed. The Madrid newspaper ABC maintains — based mainly on a text from just over a week ago by Carlos........

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