Cuba is out of oil. What now?

NPR | By Fiona Geiran,

Tinbete Ermyas, Scott Detrow

Published May 19, 2026 at 3:15 PM CDT

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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Jorge Piñon, an energy researcher at the University of Texas at Austin and a former oil executive, about the energy crisis taking place in Cuba.

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Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

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