With the threat of kinetic action not appearing imminent in the Caribbean, news coverage has sharply tapered off, But, as the most recent cutting off of oil to Cuba’s Castro dictatorship shows, there is plenty that the media isn’t keen on people seeing. The sole broadcast network nightly newscast to cover this development is NBC’s Nightly News. Below is their full report, as aired on Monday, February 9th, 2026:   WATCH: NBC Nightly News is the sole broadcast network newscast to report on Cuba's critical fuel shortages pic.twitter.com/SaZT6FM7mh — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 10, 2026 TOM LLAMAS: And the new warning from Cuba that due to a fuel shortage, they can no longer refuel international flights into the island nation. Some airlines are now suspending flights to Cuba. The growing energy crisis due, in part, to a US blockade cutting off oil from Mexico and Venezuela. The Cuba squeeze is of vital importance within the context of what the Trump administration is trying to accomplish in the Western Hemisphere, but it has gone critically unreported. The regime had been surviving for years off of free Venezuelan oil. And when that source started to dry up, Mexico began kicking in free “humanitarian assistance.” Last year alone, Mexico sent close to half a billion dollars’ worth. Fast forward to today: the Maduro regime is out of power, and the country runs as an American protectorate. Ghost fleet vessels are routinely intercepted, with Cuba getting cut off. And today the president of Mexico announced the suspension of oil shipments to Cuba.  This is critical to U.S. policy in the region because the Castroite regime has been a destabilizing force throughout the region. Their toxic export of socialism throughout Latin America has made the region less free, and unstable. There is an opportunity for that to end quickly.  Perhaps one day the media might tell this story instead of reporting on Cuba reactively, if at all.