Air Canada suspends flights to Cuba
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The update comes shortly after President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any country that supplies Cuba with oil.
The Trump administration, which has tightened the U.S. chokehold on Cuba by cutting off foreign oil, is betting that this is the Cuban communist revolution’s last year.
A total U.S. blockade on oil has caused a severe energy crisis across Cuba.
Cuba's president is offering to hold talks with the U.S. without preconditions, even as both nations exchange warnings.
The U.S. has announced an additional $6 million in aid for Cuba as the island’s crisis deepens and tensions escalate between the two countries, with Cuba’s president accusing the U.S. of an “energy blockade.
A deepening fuel crisis in Cuba led Air Canada to cancel all upcoming flights to the island on Monday, but for many Canadians still on the ground it was vacation as usual. Sitting outside a Havana bakery on Monday morning,
Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum says the US president's threat to put tariffs on countries that sell oil to Cuba is "very unfair".
The Kremlin said on Monday that the fuel situation in Cuba, which has unveiled a plan to protect essential services and ration fuel, was critical and that U.S. attempts to "suffocate" the island's economy were causing many difficulties.