A report published this Thursday (29) by the Financial Times newspaper pointed out that Cuba only has enough oil for 15 to 20 days at current levels of demand and domestic production. The British newspaper cited the data company Kpler as a source.
After the capture of the then Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro by American forces, on the 3rd, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, stated that there will no longer be shipments of Venezuelan oil to Cuba and told the Castro regime to make an agreement with Washington “before it is too late”.
Even before Maduro’s capture, Mexico had already surpassed Venezuela as the main exporter of oil to Cuba, however, according to the Financial Times, the island received only 84,900 barrels this year from a single Mexican shipment, on January 9.
This level is equivalent to a supply of just over 3,000 barrels per day, well below the average of 37,000 barrels/day from all Cuban suppliers in 2025, a year in which the country has already faced a serious energy crisis that has continued into the first days of 2026.
“We can say that Cuba can operate for 15 to 20 days” if the January shipment is added to the estimated 460,000 barrels held in inventories at the start of the year, Victoria Grabenwöger, a crude oil research analyst at Kpler, told the Financial Times.
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, said on Wednesday (28) that her government will continue delivering humanitarian aid to Cuba, which includes oil, although she has been conflicting about the reasons for suspending the shipment of a cargo that would have been sent to the island in recent days.
Last week, the Reuters agency said that Mexico was reviewing oil exports to Cuba due to fear of retaliation from the United States.
