Report: Cuba Seeking Oil in Africa as U.S. Cuts It Off from Venezuela Supply

Cuba’s communist Castro regime is seeking oil from Africa to offset the oil it is no longer getting from Venezuela’s socialist regime thanks to President Donald Trump’s campaign pressure, the independent outlet 14 y Medio reported on Monday.

Jorge Piñón, an energy expert at the University of Texas, detailed to 14 y Medio that the Mia Grace, a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker departed from Lomé, Togo, on Monday and will arrive in Havana on February 4.

Based on the ship’s 50,000 tons capacity and the draft observed on ship monitoring services, Piñón told 14 y Medio that, “It seems that it is not fully loaded.” The energy expert stressed that the quality of the cargo is not known with certainty, but he asserted that it could be diesel or fuel oil.

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