Cuba Main Victim of Gusano Rubio's Venezuelan Oil Embargo

Dec. 31--Sources in the region and in Washington report that one of intended victims of the Venezuelan oil embargo promoted by Secretary of State Marco Rubio is his former homeland, Cuba, which relies on Venezuela for the majority of its energy supplies. Rubio is a gusano, the term Fidel Castro used for the people who he expelled or offered exile for having worked for mafia, who ran Havana's casinos and prostitution, while they distributed drugs, and American companies, like United Fruit, who were exploiting the Cuban people; the term translates as "bird shit," and Rubio owes his political power to the Florida-based gusano networks, who traditionally work for Wall Street and the intelligence agencies. People who know him say that he is obsessed with destroying Cuba, and still refers to it as a "communist asset" and terms Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a "Cuban communist asset."

"Rubio is still fighting the cold war," said one source, "and so far, he has been able to drag [President Donald] Trump along for the ride."

Cuba today is wracked by the worst economic and social crisis in almost 40 years, since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, a prolonged period referred to as the “special period.” Having been sustained by cheap Venezuelan oil, gas, diesel for its aging vehicles, the embargo has already forced sharp reductions in supplies that up until now, have not been made up through shipments from other suppliers, namely Russia and Mexico, who have both said they would increase shipments to the nation

Suffering and hardship in Cuba are nothing new. Rubio and his gusano mafia claim that the island’s economic problems are due entirely to its “communist” system, causing great harm to the Cuban people. But every year the Cuban Foreign Ministry issues a special report documenting the genocidal effects on every facet of Cuban life caused by the U.S.-run economic blockade of Cuba, imposed in 1959.

The Wall Street Journal Dec. 21 pointed out that, in the event Cuba couldn’t obtain oil from Venezuela, Russia, or Mexico on favorable terms, it would have to buy it on the international market at a cost of about $3 billion a year, with funds it does not have from exports of sugar and tobacco

Cuban economist Ricardo Torres of American University reports that the Cuban economy has shrunk by 15% since 2018. According to the Social Rights Observatory, 90% of the population live in extreme poverty, and 70% consume only two meals a day. Constant power outages, dues to lack of fuel, extend up to 18-20 hours a day, making everyday life difficult. People sleep outdoors, due to a lack of ventilation or air conditioning. Aged generators and other equipment on the electric grid often can’t be repaired, because the U.S. prevents Cuba from buying spare parts from other countries.

In recent months, Cuba has also had to deal with significant damage from hurricanes.

Cuba has always prided itself on its excellent, community-based healthcare system, with clinics and medical equipment available for free in every community, including sophisticated diagnostic technology. Great care was taken to provide vaccines, especially for vulnerable populations, such as women and children; but today communicable diseases are reportedly spreading, including dengue and chikungunya. 

A quarter of the population of some 11 million people have fled the island since 2020, mostly young people. Havana-based demographer Juan Carlos Albizu-Campus told the Journal, that “what Cuba is going through—a phenomenon I call demographic hollowing out—is nothing less than a humanitarian disaster only seen in countries in armed conflict.” Cuba has the oldest population in the Americas.