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Trump Looks to Leverage Cuba’s Energy Crisis to Gain Influence

The US is easing the way for American companies to sell fuel to private Cuban businesses.
Tankers in the port of Matanzas, Cuba, on Feb. 17.AFP

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The Trump administration is quietly recalibrating its approach to Cuba, using the island’s massive energy crisis to gain leverage.