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Amanpour

Cuba is Running Out of Oil

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Cuba only has only 15-20 days of oil left, according to the Financial Times. With the US blocking deliveries from Venezuela, the Trump Administration is choking off the Cuban economy one gas tank at a time. Could talks with Washington give Cuba an off-ramp? Carlos Fernandez de Cossio is Cuba’s deputy foreign minister and top diplomat for US affairs. He says Havana is, even now, exchanging messages with Washington, and is ready for "meaningful dialog."  Also on today's show: Amos Harel, Defense Analyst, Haaretz; Kay Bailey Hutchison, Former US Ambassador to NATO    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Attention.

0:02.0

Oh, hang on.

0:04.0

Attention.

0:05.0

Rail travellers, platform paces, window gazers and armrest negotiators.

0:10.0

Have you heard?

0:12.0

The big railfare freeze is here.

0:14.0

Railfares have been frozen across England until March 2027 on standard class tickets,

0:20.0

including off-peak, anytime, and season tickets.

0:23.4

For more information, visit NationalRail.co.ukuk slash fares for ease.

0:28.3

Teens and season exclusions apply.

0:33.9

Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:45.3

It's a failed nation and and they're not getting any money from Venezuela and they're not getting any money from anywhere. As Washington suffocates Cuba's economy, our officials there ready for dialogue with the U.S.

0:51.3

Cuba's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs joins us from Havana.

0:55.8

Then, more bloodshed overnight in Gaza, with a shaky ceasefire still in effect.

1:01.8

We talked war and peace with Israeli journalist Amos Haril.

1:05.9

And I think a bad treaty is worse than no treaty.

1:09.7

With the last U.S. Russian nuclear treaty about to expire, former NATO ambassador K. Bailey Hutchison, New York, sitting in for Christian Amonpour.

1:42.5

Cuba has only 15 to 20 days of oil left at current levels of demand.

1:47.0

That's according to the Financial Times.

1:49.0

With the U.S. blocking deliveries from Venezuela, a key supplier,

1:53.0

and pressuring Mexico to cancel shipments while also threatening new tariffs on any country that sells oil to Havana.

2:00.0

The Trump administration is choking off the Cuban economy, one gas tank at a time.

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