Alex Ritson

The shortage of jet fuel is the latest result of efforts by the Trump administration to impose an effective oil blockade on the communist nation.

The White House is threatening tariffs on any country which supplies Havana.

and local people are already feeling the pain.

I've been here for five hours.

No tanker yet and no idea if it's coming.

They say it's coming, but who knows?

In Cuban pesos or foreign currency, whatever.

You just have to find a way to pay for it.

We have no other option.

David Lee is the owner of a U.S.

company which organizes trips to Cuba.

The situation has in many respects been deteriorating for some time.

So there's an aging power grid.

Life in Cuba is difficult.

It's a third world economy.

How that affects tourists.

Americans are not allowed to travel to Cuba as quote unquote tourists.

There are a set of licensed reasons that Americans can travel there.

Cuba's saying that international airlines won't be able to buy jet fuel and refuel when they're there.

Coming from the US, that may not matter because you probably don't need to refuel.