Can communist Cuba survive without Venezuelan oil?

Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

I'm Guy Kilty. Good morning.

The president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Cannell, has said Cubans are ready to defend their homeland

to the last drop of blood following a threat from Donald Trump

to cut off the country's supply of oil from Venezuela.

The US president has warned Havana to make a deal with him before it's too late,

but Cuba has long been reliant on Venezuelan oil,

providing security services in return.

The BBC's diplomatic correspondent is Paul Adams.

Cuba needs around 100,000 barrels of oil a day. It produces about 40. Until recently, it was

getting around 35 from Venezuela. That now has stopped, which leaves really only Mexico and

occasionally Russia as providers of oil for the Cuban economy.

At the moment, there is a very real prospect that they are not going to get a fraction of that.

The BBC's Paul Adams.

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