{"id":86613,"date":"2026-02-17T14:44:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/fuel-crisis-in-cuba-prevents-rubbish-pickups-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:44:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:44:54","slug":"fuel-crisis-in-cuba-prevents-rubbish-pickups-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/fuel-crisis-in-cuba-prevents-rubbish-pickups-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel crisis in Cuba prevents rubbish pickups | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump says the US&#8217;s top diplomat Marco Rubio is talking to Cuba as the Caribbean island faces a shortage <!--more--> of fuel amid a US-led oil embargo.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, Trump called Cuba a &#8220;failed nation&#8221; and said it should make a deal with the US.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba&#8217;s energy crisis is deepening, with state media reporting that fewer than half of Havana&#8217;s waste disposal trucks are able to operate.<\/p>\n<p>The shortage has been causing power cuts on the island and has resulted in a shortage of aviation fuel, leading several airlines to suspend services there.<br \/>\nSome countries, including the UK, have warned against non-essential travel to the island.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump says the US&#8217;s top diplomat Marco Rubio is talking to Cuba as the Caribbean island faces a shortage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}