{"id":473342,"date":"2026-02-17T06:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473342\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:47:09","slug":"waste-piles-up-in-cuba-as-us-imposed-fuel-blockade-halts-collection-trucks-donald-trump-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473342\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste piles up in Cuba as US-imposed fuel blockade halts collection trucks | Donald Trump News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Cubans suffer under a US fuel blockade as President Donald Trump calls the Caribbean country a \u2018failed nation\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article\u00a0|\u00a03 mins<\/p>\n<p>info<a class=\"avatar\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/author\/al_jazeera_staff_150119130629458\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771310829_159_2017-06-08T131939Z_1189275883_RC11B0FE7F20_RTRMADP_3_GULF-QATAR-JAZEERA-1714943623.jpg\"   aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published On 17 Feb 202617 Feb 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/2\/13\/cuban-official-decries-massive-punishment-by-us-oil-blockade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United States-imposed fuel crisis<\/a> in Cuba is also turning into a waste and health crisis, as many collection trucks have been left with empty fuel tanks, causing refuse to pile up on the streets of the capital, Havana, and other cities and towns.<\/p>\n<p>Only 44 of Havana\u2019s 106 rubbish trucks have been able to keep operating due to the fuel shortages, slowing rubbish collection, as waste piles up on Havana\u2019s street corners, the Reuters news agency reported on Monday, citing state-run news outlet Cubadebate.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>Other towns are also seeing rubbish pile up, and residents have taken to social media to raise the alarm over the risk to public health, according to Reuters, citing Cuban media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all over the city,\u201d said Jose Ramon Cruz, a resident of Havana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been \u200cmore than 10 days since a garbage truck came,\u201d Cruz told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The mounting rubbish crisis has added to the suffering on the tiny island-state, which US President Donald Trump described on Monday as a \u201cfailed nation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCuba is now a failed nation. They don\u2019t even have jet fuels to get their aeroplanes to take off, they\u2019re plugging up their runway,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking to Cuba right now, and Marco Rubio is talking to Cuba right now, and they should absolutely make a deal. Because it\u2019s really a humanitarian threat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba\u2019s severe fuel crisis is a result of the US cutting off crucial oil supplies once imported from Venezuela. Washington\u2019s move followed the bloody US military raid on Caracas and the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in early January.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>US \u2018violations of peace, security and international law\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/1\/5\/trump-threatens-colombias-petro-says-cuba-looks-like-its-ready-to-fall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump has been threatening Cuba<\/a> and its leadership for months, and increased his choke-hold on the Cuban economy by recently passing an executive order that allows the US to impose crippling sanctions on any country that supplies oil to Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the US intended to remove the Cuban government, akin to Washington\u2019s abduction of Maduro in Venezuela, Trump said: \u201cI don\u2019t think that will be necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Trump warned Cuban leaders to \u201cmake a deal, before it is too late\u201d, without specifying the consequences of not meeting his demand.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the crisis, Mexico sent two navy ships carrying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/2\/12\/mexican-ships-arrive-in-cuba-with-humanitarian-cargo-amid-us-oil-blockade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">800 tonnes of humanitarian aid<\/a> to Cuba last week, and on Monday, Spain said it would use the Spanish Agency for International Development and the United Nations to channel aid to Havana.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made as Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Jose Manuel Albares met with his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, in Madrid on Monday, where the pair \u201caddressed the current situation in Cuba following the tightening of the embargo\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Rodriguez criticised \u201cthe violations of peace, security and international law and the increasing hostility of the United States against Cuba\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Cuban foreign minister\u2019s stop in Madrid followed visits to China and Vietnam, where he has sought support amid the US\u2019s de facto blockade.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4318488 size-arc-image-770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AFP__20260217__97T79U7__v1__MidRes__CubaRussiaTourismRepatriation-1771298949.jpg\" alt=\"Russian tourists prepare to board a return flight at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana on February 16, 2026. In early February 2026, Havana announced it was suspending jet fuel supplies over the energy crisis, prompting Canadian and Russian airlines and Latin American carrier LATAM to repatriate stranded passengers before suspending flights.\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>Russian tourists scramble to board a return flight to Russia at Jose Marti airport in Havana on Monday, as the fuel crisis forced several foreign airlines to suspend their flights, leaving many visitors stranded [Yamil Lage\/AFP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cubans suffer under a US fuel blockade as President Donald Trump calls the Caribbean country a \u2018failed nation\u2019.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3668,12,3140,3,21,19,22,20,25,1209,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-473342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cuba","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-latin-america","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-us-canada","19":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}