Cuba says oil and diesel supplies have run dry under U.S. sanctions

A man cooks with firewood during a blackout in Havana on May 13, 2026. Yamil Lage | Afp | Getty Images Cuba has run out of oil and diesel, its energy minister said on Wednesday, as an ongoing U.S. blockade starves the island nation of fuel. "The sum of the different types of fuel: crude oil, fuel oil, of which we have absolutely none; diesel, of which we have absolutely none … the only thing we have is gas from our wells, where production has grown," Cuban Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy …