{"id":692732,"date":"2026-03-18T23:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=692732"},"modified":"2026-03-18T23:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:00:15","slug":"two-shipments-of-russian-oil-and-gas-head-to-cuba-in-defiance-of-us-financial-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=692732","title":{"rendered":"Two shipments of Russian oil and gas head to Cuba in defiance of US &#8211; Financial Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>First cargo on course to arrive on Monday as Donald Trump taunts communist island while administration engages in talks<\/h4>\n<p>If the ships arrive, they will be Cuba\u2019s first energy shipments in three months. The island was plunged into a nationwide blackout when its entire grid collapsed on Monday before gradually regaining power on Tuesday, deepening a bitter economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Trump predicted he would \u201chave the honour of taking Cuba in some form\u201d, having previously floated a \u201cfriendly takeover\u201d of the Caribbean nation. <em><strong>\u201cWhether I free it, take it, I think I could do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday. \u201cThey are a very weakened nation right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/NT3p6#selection-2091.0-2091.200\">https:\/\/archive.is\/NT3p6#selection-2091.0-2091.200<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First cargo on course to arrive on Monday as Donald Trump taunts communist island while administration engages in talks If the ships arrive, they will be Cuba\u2019s first energy shipments in three months. The island was plunged into a nationwide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=692732\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692733,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692732\/revisions\/692733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}