Cuba’s inside ministry has in the previous denounced different incursions into its territorial waters by privately owned US boats it mentioned have been engaged in smuggling Cubans from the Caribbean island to the US.
The incident additionally comes virtually 30 years to the day since Cuban defence forces shot down two small civilian planes belonging to Brothers to the Rescue, a US-based group that looked for rafts carrying migrants from Cuba to the US.
Four individuals aboard have been killed in the 1996 incident, triggering outrage in the US.
Last month, following the seizure of Venezuela’s Maduro in a US navy operation, US President Donald Trump advised Cuba to “make a deal” or face unspecified penalties.
Trump additionally mentioned on the time that there would be “no more oil going to Cuba”. His administration has blocked shipments from Venezuela and threatened tariffs on different nations delivering oil to the island.
The transfer has additional exacerbated the already crippling oil and gas shortages Cuba has been struggling for years.
On Wednesday, nevertheless, the US Treasury mentioned it will ease some small personal sector transactions, together with oil gross sales, to “support the Cuban people, for commercial and humanitarian use”.
