{"id":19083,"date":"2026-02-17T07:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-us-cuba-are-talking-in-midst-of-oil-blockade\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:21:10","slug":"trump-says-us-cuba-are-talking-in-midst-of-oil-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-us-cuba-are-talking-in-midst-of-oil-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US, Cuba are talking in midst of oil blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Monday said the United States and Cuba are talking as the island faces crippling circumstances in the midst of a White House-imposed oil blockade. &ldquo;Cuba is right now a failed nation, and they don&#8217;t even have jet fuel to get for airplanes to take off&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5740997-trump-cuba-oil-blockade\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Monday said the United States and Cuba are talking as the island faces crippling circumstances in the midst of a White House-imposed oil blockade. &ldquo;Cuba is right now a failed nation, and they don&#8217;t even have jet fuel to get for airplanes to take off&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}