© EPA/ Ernesto Mastrascusa The president declared a state of emergency.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday menaced to introduce fresh duties on nations that furnish oil to Cuba, intensifying a campaign of coercion on the communist island country.
The related determination, embraced on the ground of an executive order inside the context of the pronounced emergency situation, doesn’t hold specific tariff figures and doesn’t identify any state whose products could fall under American customs restrictions, writes Reuters.
Stirred by the seizure of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by the US military in an operation earlier this month, Trump has consistently avowed his purpose to take action against Cuba and apply pressure on its governance.
This week, Trump remarked that “Cuba is going to crumble very soon,” appending that Venezuela, formerly the island's leading oil supplier, has dispatched no oil or finances to Cuba lately.
All through his second presidential tenure, Trump has employed tariff threats as a tool of external policy.
Cuba's president communicated this month that Washington possessed no ethical prerogative to force an accord on Cuba after Trump advised the communist-governed island country should conclude a deal with the United States.
To recall, Trump overtly proclaimed that the ensuing item on the agenda of his administration in the struggle against narcotics dealing in Latin America will be Cuba. According to him, “aid” to Cubans constitutes a completely sensible measure subsequent to the occurrences in Caracas. Concurrently, Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez conveyed that his nation's army stands ready to wage war for Venezuela, denominating the American operation there fascism. Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin surmises that should US Secretary of State Marco Rubio “demolish” the regime in Cuba, he could evolve into the next president of the United States.