{"id":498861,"date":"2026-02-25T16:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498861\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:07:07","slug":"canada-pledges-8-million-in-food-aid-for-cuba-as-u-s-fuel-blockade-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498861\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada pledges $8 million in food aid for Cuba as U.S. fuel blockade continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Canada is sending $8 million in food aid to people in Cuba, where a U.S. oil blockade has triggered a humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and MP Randeep Sarai, secretary of state for international development, say the funding is aimed at addressing urgent needs.<\/p>\n<p>The funding will be delivered through United Nations agencies instead of the Cuban government.<\/p>\n<p>Global Affairs Canada has warned travellers for more than a year of \u201cshortages of basic necessities, including food, medicine and fuel,\u201d across most of Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>The island lost its main source of fuel in January when the U.S. took control of Venezuela\u2019s oil reserves and Washington has since threatened tariffs on countries sending Cuba fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s administration have suggested economic pressure could topple the communist regime, but a Canadian official told a parliamentary committee Tuesday that the Cuban government is stable.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 25, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Canada is sending $8 million in food aid to people in Cuba, where a U.S. oil&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-498861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}