{"id":21003,"date":"2026-01-08T22:49:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21003"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:49:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:49:58","slug":"people-would-attempt-to-flee-concern-grows-over-possible-cuba-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21003","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People would attempt to flee\u2019: Concern grows over possible Cuba collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;With the Trump administration exerting control over Venezuela, Cuba has lost one of its principal economic patrons and oil suppliers. The island, already in economic dire straits, will face even deeper financial problems unless it finds another government willing to provide it with the oil it once received from Venezuela \u2014 the import of which until a week ago it exchanged for money and personnel. Cuba has dodged collapse for decades but Maduro\u2019s capture poses perhaps the greatest threat to the regime since the collapse of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And a failed state could lead to an exodus of Cubans looking for refuge in the United States.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/07\/following-venezuela-raid-fears-grow-of-economic-collapse-in-cuba-00714716\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/07\/following-venezuela-raid-fears-grow-of-economic-collapse-in-cuba-00714716<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;With the Trump administration exerting control over Venezuela, Cuba has lost one of its principal economic patrons and oil suppliers. The island, already in economic dire straits, will face even deeper financial problems unless it finds another government willing to provide it with the oil it once received from Venezuela \u2014 the import of which until a week ago it exchanged for money and personnel. Cuba has dodged collapse for decades but Maduro\u2019s capture poses perhaps the greatest threat to the regime since the collapse of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>And a failed state could lead to an exodus of Cubans looking for refuge in the United States.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/07\/following-venezuela-raid-fears-grow-of-economic-collapse-in-cuba-00714716<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1210,1821,221,576,170,741],"class_list":["post-21003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-cuba","tag-cubans","tag-donald-trump","tag-oil","tag-trump","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21004,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21003\/revisions\/21004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}