nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/4fb2861ff48d9b17 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260407s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/4fb2861ff48d9b17 doi eng 342 23 Atiles, Jose Author aut Weaponizing Necessity - Fuel Blockade and the US Economic Warfare Against Cuba Atiles, Jose Verfassungsblog 2026-04-07 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On March 30, 2026, reports indicated that the US would allow a Russian oil tanker carrying 730,000 barrels of crude oil to dock in Cuba, delivering much-needed fuel to an island that had faced an effective US oil blockade since January 29, 2026. The arrival underscored the severity of Cuba’s energy crisis, produced by a deliberate escalation of US economic coercion, using both sanctions and tariffs. As tools of economic warfare, tariffs operate as forms of state crime that produce systemic harm and human suffering in Cuba and across the region.  CC BY-SA 4.0 Cuba Economic Crisis Kuba Sanctions State Crime Trump USA United States economic measures tariffs (DE-588)4033340-1 gnd Kuba Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/cuba-blockade/ raw object