Friday, February 20, 2026

Oil Blockade hurts Cuban Private Sector

Hugo Cancio, a Cuban-American businessman reporting in OnCuba News, a digital newspaper with information about Cuba, the United States and the World notes the benefit of allowing the private sector to import fuel is a practical, urgent, and deeply human decision, and is not for an abstract entrepreneur.


Havana 2017



The primary beneficiary is the Cuban people. It also benefits a mother, a sister, or a child whose family lives abroad. We all benefit from the effort and risk assumed by the owners of thousands of “mipymes” that sustain supply chains on which our families depend, inside and outside the island.


Here, a legitimate question arises: if the United States administration has repeatedly expressed its support for economic opening in Cuba, is this not precisely one of its clearest expressions? Is allowing the private sector to import fuel not a real, concrete, and measurable economic opening that recognizes the weight, role, and responsibility this sector already holds in the country’s current economy? (Cancio, 2026)





References

Cancio, H. (2026, February 18). When Fuel Runs Out, Life Comes to a Halt. OnCubaNews. Retrieved February 20, 2026, from https://oncubanews.com/en/cuba/when-fuel-runs-out-life-comes-to-a-halt/ 


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