UN says Cuba fuel blockade worsening

The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Cuba, Pichon, told reporters in New York that one month since United States President Donald Trump issued an executive order that created “a fuel blockade for Cuba,” its humanitarian consequences are “deepening by the day.”

The 29 January executive order had authorized the imposition of new tariffs on imports from countries that directly or indirectly supply oil to the Government of Cuba. He noted that additional sanctions to countries that provide oil to Cuba are expected and said, “Cuba continues, in fact, to be designated as an unusual and extraordinary threat to the US national security.”