{"id":68955,"date":"2026-03-14T08:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/cuba-confirms-discussions-with-the-us-amid-oil-blockade\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:56:05","slug":"cuba-confirms-discussions-with-the-us-amid-oil-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/cuba-confirms-discussions-with-the-us-amid-oil-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Confirms Discussions With the US Amid Oil Blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel is acknowledging for the first time discussions with the United States. He did not provide details about the talks, but added that certain international factors led to the exchange. It comes as President Donald Trump has been ramping up pressure on the communist country with an oil blockade. NBC\u2019s George Solis reports for Saturday TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel is acknowledging for the first time discussions with the United States. He did not provide details about the talks, but added that certain international factors led to the exchange. It comes as President Donald Trump has been ramping up pressure on the communist country with an oil blockade. NBC\u2019s George Solis &#8230; <a title=\"Cuba Confirms Discussions With the US Amid Oil Blockade\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/cuba-confirms-discussions-with-the-us-amid-oil-blockade\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cuba Confirms Discussions With the US Amid Oil Blockade\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}