Article 74JZQ Trump appears to relax oil blockade on Cuba as Russian tanker arrives

Trump appears to relax oil blockade on Cuba as Russian tanker arrives

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Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent
from World news | The Guardian on (#74JZQ)

US president says he has no problem' with countries sending oil to Cuba, in potential lifeline to island nation

Donald Trump appears to have relaxed his blockade on fuel-starved Cuba after a Russian tanker reached the Caribbean island carrying 100,000 tonnes of crude.

Russia's transport ministry said the Anatoly Kolodkin tanker arrived at the port of Matanzas on Cuba's northern coast on Monday to deliver the crisis-hit country's first such cargo in more than three months.

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