Trump: Cuba Will No Longer Receive Oil and Money from Venezuela

US President Donald Trump warned Cuba on Sunday that it will no longer receive money or oil from Venezuela, stating that the island has been 'living for years' thanks to Venezuelan money and crude oil in exchange for 'security services' for 'the last two dictators (Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro)'. After that operation, 'Venezuela no longer needs protection' from the Cubans, 'the thugs and extortionists who held them hostage for so many years,' added the president and American tycoon. And Venezuela now has the 'most powerful' army in the world, that of the United States, to protect itself. After referring to Cuba having provided 'military services' to 'the last two Venezuelan dictators' in exchange for the oil and money that has allowed the island to 'survive' for many years, Trump congratulated himself that 'the majority' of Cuban soldiers died after the attack carried out by US forces last week in Venezuela, which ended with the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Because Venezuela - he added - now has the United States and its army, 'by far' the 'most powerful in the world', to 'protect them'. Trump spat out on his Truth Social network, where he emphasized that 'most of those Cubans are DEAD from the last US attack'. 'I suggest (to Cuba) that they reach an agreement before it is too late,' added the Republican, who since the capture of Nicolás Maduro has been predicting that the Cuban government will soon fall. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel added on social networks that Cuba 'is preparing, willing to defend the Homeland until the last drop of blood'. Faced with these accusations, the Cuban government responded by ensuring that it 'does not receive and has never received' monetary or material compensation for security services provided to any country. This is how Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez reacted in a message on social networks. 'And we will protect them,' he assured. 'BUT NO MORE!': 'ZERO!'. Regarding oil imports, Rodríguez stated that his country 'has the absolute right to import fuel from those markets willing to export it and that exercise their own right to develop their commercial relations without interference or subordination to the coercive unilateral measures of the USA'.