Tag: US sanctions

Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:40 UTC
Russia pledges to help Cuba have access to oil and petroleum products

Russia will find ways to help Cuba get oil and petroleum products, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview broadcast on Saturday. Medvedev pledged to help develop Cuba’s energy sector during a visit to the island this week but did not announce any short-term measures to provide relief from crippling fuel shortages in the wake of tougher U.S. sanctions.
Tuesday, October 1st 2019 - 09:37 UTC
Maduro scoffs at EU sanctions and Trump's failed Venezuela policy

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday scoffed at sanctions imposed by the European Union and accused Brussels of doing US President Donald Trump's bidding. “I don't care about the European Union sanctions, the sanctions of the European Union make us laugh,” Maduro told a press conference, saying the EU was “sinking in the mud of Donald Trump's failed Venezuela policy.”
Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 13:03 UTC
Hard-time “Special period” creeping back in Cuba, diesel shortage and long queues

Havana awoke on Thursday to long lines at gas stations and public transportation stops after President Miguel Diaz-Canel warned fellow Cubans to expect fuel shortages and blackouts that he blamed on US sanctions.
Friday, September 13th 2019 - 12:40 UTC
Maduro will not attend UN General Assembly but will deliver 12m signatures denouncing US sanctions

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he will not travel to New York for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly later this month, but that two of his envoys would attend to denounce U.S. sanctions on the OPEC nation.
Tuesday, September 3rd 2019 - 09:14 UTC
US is not seeking a military intervention of Venezuela: it’s Russian and Cuban military that want Maduro to stay

The United States is not seeking a military intervention as a solution to the economic and political crisis in Venezuela, the U.S. envoy to the troubled South American nation said in an interview published by a Venezuelan online news site on Sunday.
Friday, August 30th 2019 - 09:46 UTC
US confident of EU sanctions on Venezuela, if political dialogue fails; Russia main trader of the country's oil

Washington's envoy for Venezuela said on Thursday he was hopeful that the European Union will impose sanctions against Caracas in the coming months and the United States was examining more measures to pressure President Nicolas Maduro to step down.
Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 10:20 UTC
Trump blocks all assets of the Venezuelan government in US

Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order “Blocking Property of the Government of Venezuela.”
Monday, July 29th 2019 - 09:36 UTC
Two Iranian vessels are refueled by Petrobras and leave loaded with corn

Two Iranian ships stranded off the coast of Brazil for weeks set sail on Saturday, officials said, after a court ordered state oil giant Petrobras to fuel up the vessels. The bulk carriers had been stuck at Paranagua port in the southern state of Parana since early last month after Petrobras refused to provide fuel for fear of breaching US sanctions on Iran.
Friday, July 26th 2019 - 09:56 UTC
Brazil's highest court orders Petrobras to refuel two Iranian grain vessels

Brazil’s top court on Thursday ordered state-run oil company Petrobras to refuel two Iranian grain vessels stranded on the Brazilian coast due to U.S. sanctions holding up sales of fuel needed for their return trips.
Monday, July 22nd 2019 - 09:52 UTC
More Iranian bulk carriers stranded in Brazil, since Petrobras refuses to refuel them fearing US sanctions

Two more Iranian bulk carriers that came to Brazil carrying urea and were expected to return home with corn could be left without enough fuel, as Brazil's Petrobras refuses to provide them with bunker fuel due to U.S. sanctions.