After blocking foreign oil shipments, the Trump administration is now allowing small amounts of oil to enter Cuba — as long as they circumvent government hands.

Cuba’s forces fatally shot four people, one of whom was a US citizen, on a Florida-registered speedboat that was trying to enter Cuban waters Wednesday and “infiltrate” the island, authorities said.

Michael Ortega Casanova is one of four people who were killed after people aboard a U.S.-registered speedboat allegedly opened fire on Cuba's border patrol.

One of the four people killed by Cuban border troops was a U.S. citizen, it has been revealed.

A commando of Cuban exiles who intended to infiltrate Cuba on a speedboat was armed with nearly 13,000 rounds of ammunition, 13 rifles and 11 pistols, Cuban officials said on Friday, providing new details about Wednesday's deadly exchange of gunfire at sea.

The energy shortage was an overwhelming problem even before Mr Trump’s attention turned to Cuba. His threat to impose tariffs on any country which supplies Cuba with oil has become an effective embargo.

Cuban authorities allege the men departed from Marathon in two boats, and piled everything onto one vessel after the other broke down at sea.

A fatal shooting on a boat traveling to Cuba is bringing fresh attention to a deep-rooted movement in Florida against the island’s government