LatinNews Daily - 03 June 2026

*Cuba’s state-run oil company Unión Cuba-Petróleo (Cupet) has announced that it has refined 20,000 tonnes of domestic crude into naphtha as part of a pilot scheme amid an ongoing US blockade on oil deliveries to the island. Cupet director Irenaldo Pérez Cardoso told state television channel Canal Caribe that the process at the Hermanos Díaz refinery in Santiago de Cuba province had generated naphtha, a solvent needed to reduce the viscosity of Cuban crude. Granma, the mouthpiece of the Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC) government, stated that this is part of “the strategy to respond to the maximum pressure that, through the blockade, the US government is exerting on our country”.

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