The Trump administration is moving to ease fuel shipments to Cuba's private sector as part of a broader strategy to make the island more dependent on U.S. supplies, increasing Washington's leverage to push for political and economic change, according to a new report.
Under the approach, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control would "implement a favorable licensing policy" allowing certain fuel sales, including the resale of Venezuelan oil to Cuba. Transactions benefiting Cuba's government would remain barred.
