The officialist Cuban blogger Pedro Jorge Velázquez, known on social media as "El Necio", published this Saturday on Facebook a direct criticism of the Venezuelan government led by Delcy Rodríguez for signing a mega oil agreement with the United States while refusing to sell fuel to Cuba.
"The current Venezuelan government, which is willing to hand over a century of oil extraction to the U.S., is the same one that has refused to sell a single drop of oil to Cuba in 2026," wrote Velázquez in response to the largest oil agreement in history announced on Friday by Donald Trump.
The pact, negotiated with the acting Venezuelan president Delcy Rodríguez with the participation of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, grants the United States effective control of 80% of a private joint venture with access to over 65 billion barrels of proven Venezuelan reserves for 100 years.
The agreement encompasses 17 strategic fields, an investment of over 100 billion dollars, and more than 209 billion in taxes for the Venezuelan state, according to figures released by Delcy Rodríguez and the Chavista regime.
For El Necio, contradiction is unacceptable: “While for the U.S. it is a matter of world dominance and its resources, for Cuba it is a matter of survival, of saving lives.”
The publication takes on particular significance given the energy context currently facing the island. Venezuela stopped sending oil to Cuba between November 2025 and January 2026, in the wake of the pressures from Washington following the capture of Nicolás Maduro. The result was an unprecedented crisis: blackouts of up to 25 hours daily and reserves that barely covered four days of consumption.
In May 2026, the Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O Levy, publicly admitted that Cuba was out of fuel and had no reserves of fuel oil or diesel.
The official communicator also recalled the 32 Cuban soldiers who died on January 3, 2026, during the operation in which Maduro was captured, whom both governments declared "heroes and martyrs of the homeland" and honored with a monument inaugurated in Caracas in June 2026.
"The Cuban government should take this very much into account, especially after the 32 Cuban heroes who died defending Venezuela against the invaders," wrote Velázquez.
The criticism is striking coming from a journalist who has historically aligned with the government. In August 2026, El Necio himself admitted that his journalism had been "complacent" and promised to distance himself from any bias, which seems to indicate a gradual separation from the official discourse, of which this publication would be a new expression.
Trump had conditioned any agreement with Venezuela since January 2026 on Caracas severing ties with Cuba, China, Russia, and Iran, and even published that "there will be no more oil or money for Cuba" as part of that pressure.
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