{"id":5726,"date":"2026-10-07T16:33:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/u-s-seizes-2-8m-in-cuba-bound-fuel-shipments\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T16:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:33:42","slug":"u-s-seizes-2-8m-in-cuba-bound-fuel-shipments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/u-s-seizes-2-8m-in-cuba-bound-fuel-shipments\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Seizes $2.8M in Cuba-Bound Fuel Shipments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/QKczJH_6NNs\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Federal officials seize illegal fuel exports bound for Cuba\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QKczJH_6NNs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> MIAMI, FL \u2013 October 7, 2026 (STL.News) Federal authorities have intercepted 90 shipments containing more than 600,000 gallons of biodiesel that investigators say were being exported from the United States to a sanctioned Cuban fuel company, in an enforcement action spanning ports in Florida and Texas. The shipments were valued at approximately $2.8 million and were stopped before leaving the United States, according to federal officials. Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Commerce Department\u2019s Bureau of Industry and Security participated in the operation. Authorities said the fuel was destined for ENETEC S.A., a Havana-based<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/u-s-seizes-2-8m-in-cuba-bound-fuel-shipments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI, FL \u2013 October 7, 2026 (STL.News) Federal authorities have intercepted 90 shipments containing more than 600,000 gallons of biodiesel that investigators say were being exported from the United States to a sanctioned Cuban fuel company, in an enforcement action&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5728,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions\/5728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}