Trump issues warning to Havana: “Cuba will get no more oil and money – zero. Make a deal before it's too late”

US President Donald Trump on Sunday urged Cuba to “make a deal”, warning that otherwise it would face unspecified consequences and that the flow of oil and money from Venezuela to Havana would stop, Reuters and AFP note.

“Cuba will get no more oil and money – zero! I strongly suggest they make a deal before it's too late,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.

In his post, Trump also claimed that “most” of the Cuban agents providing security to Venezuela's former leadership were killed in the US attack last week.

“Cuba lived, for many years, on large amounts of oil and money from Venezuela. In return, Cuba provided 'security services' to the last two Venezuelan dictators, but that's over! Most of those Cubans are dead as a result of the US attack last week, and Venezuela no longer needs protection from the robbers and blackmailers who held them hostage for so many years,” the US president added.

“Cuba is going to be something we're going to talk about,” President Donald Trump said just hours after the Jan. 3, 2026, operation to capture the Venezuelan president.

Since the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by US forces, US President Donald Trump and members of his administration have issued warnings to several other governments, namely those of Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Iran and Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, that they could follow.

Trump also said that military intervention is not necessary in Cuba, a key ally of Venezuela, because it is “ready to fall.”

“I don't think any action is needed,” Trump said. “It looks like it's collapsing.”

“I don't know if they will last, but Cuba now has no income,” he added. “All their income came from Venezuela, from Venezuelan oil,” he explained.

The U.S. ouster of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro has shaken the country of fewer than 10 million people, which has long relied on Venezuela for oil imports that have barely kept its small economy from collapsing.

US intelligence has painted a bleak picture of the economic and political situation in Cuba, but its assessments do not clearly support Donald Trump's prediction that the island is “on the verge of collapse”, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing three people familiar with the confidential analyses.

According to the CIA assessment, key sectors of the Cuban economy, such as agriculture and tourism, are severely affected by frequent power outages, trade sanctions and other difficulties.

A possible loss of oil imports and other forms of support from Venezuela, Havana's key ally for decades, could make governing even more difficult for the administration in power since 1959, when Fidel Castro led the revolution.

Between January and November of last year, Venezuela delivered an average of about 27,000 barrels of oil a day to the island, covering about 50 percent of Cuba's crude shortfall, according to shipping data and documents from Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA.