Cuba described as a “brutal act of aggression” the executive order issued by US President Donald Trump threatening to impose tariffs on countries that sell oil to the island, in a message posted on social media by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on January 29, 2026.
Cuba’s foreign minister on Thursday slammed US President Donald Trump’s executive order threatening tariffs on countries selling oil to the Caribbean island, calling it a “brutal act of aggression.”
“We denounce to the world this brutal act of aggression against Cuba and its people, who for more than 65 years have been subjected to the longest and cruelest economic blockade ever imposed on an entire nation and who are now guaranteed to be subjected to extreme living conditions,” Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez wrote in a post on X.
The country’s reaction followed US President Donald Trump’s signing of an executive order Thursday, threatening to impose additional tariffs on countries that sell oil to Cuba, further increasing pressure on the communist-led island.
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The order did not specify the value of the tariffs or which countries would be targeted, leaving those determinations up to the Secretary of Commerce.
Cuba, which has largely been under a US embargo since 1962, until recently received most of its oil from Venezuela.
But the United States has moved to block the flow after removing Havana’s key ally, Nicolas Maduro, from power and effectively seizing control of Venezuelan oil exports.
AFP
