Cuba Decries Trump’s ‘Genocidal’ Threat, Girds for Calamity (2)

Cuba hit back at Donald Trump’s plans to use tariffs to choke off all oil supplies to the struggling island, calling it extortionary and declaring an emergency with conditions on the ground set to become even more dire.

“This new measure demonstrates the fascist, criminal, and genocidal nature of a clique that has hijacked the interests of the American people for purely personal gain,” President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Friday in a post on X.

His top diplomat also decried the move as “blackmail and coercion.” Washington is using its might against countries in the hemisphere to “plunder their ...