Cuba Reportedly Doing All It Can To Prevent Venezuela's Maduro From Being Toppled By The U.S.

The Cuban regime is doing all it can to prevent Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro from being toppled by the U.S. as the Trump administration escalates pressure on Caracas, according to a new report.

The Wall Street Journal detailed that keeping the Maduro regime is key for the island's ailing economy. Cuba is already feeling pain from Washington's campaign, with the outlet noting that daily shipments of oil to Cuba have fallen from 100,000 a day to 30,000.

Thomas A. Shannon Jr., a former high-ranking U.S. diplomat who dealt frequently with the regime, told the outlet that Havana is "taking very good care of Nicolas Maduro and his immediate successors." "The Cubans are not going to go quietly into the dark night," he added.

The threat to the Venezuela's regime is exacerbating Cuba's most severe economic crisis since Fidel Castro took power in 1959. The WSJ noted that over a quarter of the island's population have left the island since 2020, with hundreds of thousands making their way to the U.S.

The figure was provided by Havana-based demographer Juan Carlos Albizu-Campos. "What Cuba is going through, a phenomenon I call demographic hollowing out, is nothing less than a humanitarian disaster only seen in countries in armed conflict, he said.

In another passage of the piece, the WSJ said that Cubans are "going hungry, suffering from spreading disease and sleeping outdoors with no electricity to power fans through the sweltering nights." Almost 90% of the population live in extreme poverty and 70% go without at least a meal a day, according to the Social Rights Observatory.

A further drop in oil from Venezuela would further devastate the economy. "It would be the collapse of the Cuban economy, no question about it," said Jorge Piñon, a Cuban exile tracking the country's energy ties to Venezuela at the University of Texas at Austin.