Donald Trump has urged Cuba to “make a deal” or face consequences, warning that the flow of Venezuelan oil and money would now stop.
The US president has been turning his attention to Cuba since US forces seized Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro in a 3 January raid on its capital, Caracas.
Venezuela, a long-standing ally of Cuba, is believed to send around 35,000 barrels of oil a day to the island.
Cuba’s foreign minister responded by saying his nation retained the right to import fuel “without interference”, while its president said: “No one dictates what we do.”
It was no longer officially federal land as it had been returned to the island. That said, SCOTUS also affirmed (in different words) that Puerto Rico is not truly self governing, that it is a colony and that it falls under the jurisdiction of congress. So technically, the entire island is federal land that congress can do whatever they want with. Yay colonialism!