Cuba is in danger of collapse as Venezuelan oil dries up
Joseph Hernandez, a Cuban immigrant and candidate for New York comptroller, shares his family’s experiences fleeing communist Cuba and discusses the country’s uncertain future after Maduro’s conquest, highlighting Venezuela’s oil dependence.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez declared on Sunday that the island nation would defend itself “to the last drop of blood”, responding to pressure from US President Donald Trump to strike a deal with Washington.
President Trump had spoken about Cuba in a Truth Social post earlier in the day, urging that “they make a deal BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.”
“Those who blame the Revolution for the serious economic deficits we are suffering must keep their mouths shut out of shame. Because they know and recognize it: they are the fruit of the draconian measures of extreme strangulation that the US has been applying to us for sixty years and now threatens to surpass,” the Cuban wrote on X, according to a translation of the Spanish-language after.
“#Cuba is a free, independent and sovereign nation. No one dictates what we do. Cuba is not aggressive; it has been under attack by the United States for 66 years, and it does not threaten; it is preparing, ready to defend the homeland to the last drop of blood,” he wrote in another article. afteraccording to the translation.
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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel makes a gesture during the second plenary session of the BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6, 2025. (PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP via Getty Images)
U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez, Florida, a native of Cuba, responded to the foreign figure’s post.
“You dictators, henchmen and executioners of the Cuban nation think you own the island. You don’t have much time left,” he declared, according to the translation of his afteralso written in Spanish.
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Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., speaks during the Congressional Hispanic Conference press conference at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Trump stated this in a Truth Social after On Sunday, “Cuba lived for years on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba provided ‘security services’ to the last two Venezuelan dictators, BUT NO MORE! Most of those Cubans are DEAD from last week’s US attack, and Venezuela no longer needs protection from the criminals and extortionists who have held them hostage for so many years.
“Venezuela now has the United States of America, the most powerful military in the world (by far!) to protect them, and we will. THERE WILL NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO! I strongly advise them to make a deal BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE,” he warned.
TRUMP ULTIMATUM FOR CUBA: ‘Make a deal before it’s too late’ or face consequences
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Rep. Gimenez thanked the president.
“I was born in Cuba and was forced from home shortly after the communist takeover. Today I represent my community in Congress. Thank you, President Trump, first Venezuela and then Cuba. We will be forever grateful. Our hemisphere must be the hemisphere of freedom,” the lawmaker wrote in a letter after on X.
