Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said the country has not received compensation for security services provided to any other country, according to a post on X on Sunday.
He added that Cuba has the right to import fuel from any country willing to export it, accusing the U.S. of behaving in a “criminal” manner that threatens global peace.
This was in response to U.S. President Donald Trump saying that Cuba should strike a deal with Washington, warning that the island nation would no longer receive oil or money from Venezuela.
Venezuela is Cuba’s biggest oil supplier, but since the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces, Trump has successfully pressed interim President Delcy Rodriguez to send Venezuelan oil to the United States.
“THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO! I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday.
“Cuba lived, for many years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela,” Trump said.
Between January and November of last year, Venezuela sent an average of 27,000 barrels per day (bpd) to the island, covering roughly 50% of Cuba’s oil deficit, according to shipping data and documents from Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA.
