Keith Adams

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.

Well, our Central America and Cuba correspondent, Will Grant, was in Havana just weeks ago.

He spoke to my colleague, Ed Butler.

It's very, very desperate.

I mean, I've been very recently, I saw and spoke to people.

It really is the only topic of conversation with people.

You were seeing on petrol station forecourts people were queuing for hours on end, hoping to get the possibility of some kind of fuel for their cars, even if that meant paying in foreign currency, which sort of already divides people into those who have access to foreign currency and those who don't.

But it is a very, very tough picture for people right now.

Firstly, I suppose they are going to be completely out of oil, I guess, potentially this weekend or something like it if a solution isn't found.

Do we know what Washington is offering as some kind of compromise?

Because it seems like they hold all the chips effectively if Cuba is going to be out of fuel altogether.

Yeah, I think that's a very fair analysis, Ed.

I mean, if we pull back, as you say, from hearing the voices on the street, if we pull back and we think about this for a moment, Venezuela, the main provider of oil, that's been knocked out.

And Washington is essentially in control now, as far as we understand, of the Venezuelan oil industry.

It is a complete red line for Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, that Venezuela sends any more oil to Cuba.