#Trump #MafiaState #Imperialism

[nonilex@masto.ai]

#Trump #MafiaState #Imperialism

#Cuba Has Run Out of #Oil

Cuba's oil reserves have run dry, its government said, potentially plunging the country into more debilitating #blackouts.

A long-running #EnergyCrisis in the island nation reached a breaking point this week, when government officials said they had run out of reserves.

This whole world runs on #FossilFuels, how stupid is that?

#geopolitics #climate #ClimateCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/world/americas/cuba-oil-energy-crisis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

[nonilex@masto.ai]

#Venezuela #fuel stopped flowing to #Cuba entirely in January, after the #US seized Venezuela’s leader and took control of Venezuela’s #oil industry. Later, the #Trump admin imposed an effective #blockade barring all foreign oil from reaching Cuba, which had also received shipments from #Mexico.

#MafiaState #Imperialism #geopolitics #climate #ClimateCrisis #EnergyCrisis

[nonilex@masto.ai]

The governments in Havana & Washington have been engaged in secret negotiations for weeks, with no signs of progress. For #Cuba, the goal is to end the #energy #blockade. For the #US, the talks are [purportedly] focused on ending the government’s grip on the economy & ending political repression [though in actuality it is on #RegimeChange & #US #WesternHemisphere control].

#Trump #MafiaState #Imperialism #geopolitics #climate #ClimateCrisis #EnergyCrisis

[hakona@im.alstadheim.no]

@Nonilex So, really it's getting Trumps business-buddies some sweetheart-deals.

[nonilex@masto.ai]

…President Miguel Díaz-Canel acknowledged that the #energy situation was “particularly tense.”

“This dramatic worsening has a single cause: the genocidal energy blockade to which the United States subjects our country,” he said on X.

#Trump #US #MafiaState #Imperialism #genocide #geopolitics #climate #ClimateCrisis #EnergyCrisis

[nonilex@masto.ai]

…The #Trump admin blamed what it said was the govt’s failure to manage its economy for Cuba’s #EnergyCrisis.

“The reason why they don’t have oil is because they don’t have any money to pay for oil,” Secy of State #Marco Rubio said in a March interview with NYT, in which he discounted the role of the #Trump admin’s #oil #blockade.

“The problem they’re facing is that usually when people give you oil, they expect to get paid for it,” he said. “And these guys have no money.”

#FactCheck #TrumpLies

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@Nonilex

All the cheap, high-quality in easy to get oil is largely tapped out. This is why shale, fracking and deep sea oil rigs are needed now at least with the current economy’s energy consumption.

Economically viable oil resources really only have a few decades, with oil extraction costing more in money and energy to get a unit of energy out.

Transition is needed even without climate change, but the global economy will face a reckoning when it cannot burn energy with more intensity

[felipeb@hachyderm.io]

@Nonilex where's china in all of this?

[llanciawn@mastodon.social]

@Nonilex Act of war