{"id":28755,"date":"2026-02-24T08:05:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=28755"},"modified":"2026-02-24T08:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:18:02","slug":"canada-plans-assistance-for-cuba-as-u-s-sanctions-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/02\/canada-plans-assistance-for-cuba-as-u-s-sanctions-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada plans assistance for Cuba as U.S. sanctions rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canada has said it is preparing an assistance plan for Cuba as the island struggles with severe fuel shortages and blackouts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reuters reports that Anita Anand, the Canadian Foreign Minister, told reporters on Monday (Feb. 23) that Ottawa is preparing to assist Cuba but did not provide details on what the assistance may include.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump has said that \u201cCuba will be failing pretty soon.\u201d Trump has tightened sanctions and moved to block oil shipments \u2014 including from its longtime ally Venezuela \u2014 in an effort to increase pressure on the Communist-run government.<\/p>\n<p>These restrictions have driven up costs for food and transportation and contributed to prolonged power outages across Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations has warned that if Cuba\u2019s energy needs are not met, the situation could escalate into a broader humanitarian emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Washington and Ottawa have also had tensions under Trump over issues like trade tariffs, Trump\u2019s rhetoric towards Greenland, Ottawa\u2019s attempts to warm ties with Beijing, and Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s remarks urging middle powers to act together to avoid being victimized by U.S. hegemony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada has said it is preparing an assistance plan for Cuba as the island struggles with severe fuel shortages and blackouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":28756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,976,982,234],"tags":[1047,1495,1559,348,496],"class_list":["post-28755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-politics","category-international","category-us","tag-assistance","tag-canada","tag-cuba","tag-u-s","tag-sanctions"],"views":23,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28760,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28755\/revisions\/28760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}