This handout picture released by the Venezuelan Presidency shows Venezuelas interim president Delcy Rodriguez reacting during an act of loyalty, recognition and oath-taking by the Bolivarian National Armed Forces at the Military Academy of the Bolivarian Army, part of the Fuerte Tiuna military complex in Caracas on January 28, 2026. Venezuelan soldiers and police officers on January 28, swore loyalty and absolute subordination to interim president Delcy Rodriguez, after the fall of President Nicolas Maduro earlier this month during a US incursion. (Photo by MARCELO GARCIA / Venezuelan Presidency / AFP)
January 30, 2026
Venezuela slams US ‘punitive’ measures against ally Cuba
CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP)-Venezuela, whose president was recently toppled in a US military operation, on Friday slammed Washington’s “punitive measures” against its struggling ally Cuba, after threats of tariffs on countries giving it oil.
A tariff order signed by US President Donald Trump on Thursday amounted to “punitive measures on countries that decide to maintain legitimate trade relations with the Republic of Cuba,” the foreign ministry in Caracas said.
It vowed “solidarity with the Cuban people” deprived of Venezuelan oil now under US control, and urged “collective action by the international community to address the humanitarian consequences stemming from aggressions of this nature.”
