{"id":658665,"date":"2026-02-16T07:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658665"},"modified":"2026-02-16T07:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:25:57","slug":"cuba-postpones-its-annual-cigar-fair-as-a-us-oil-siege-causes-severe-fuel-shortages-and-blackouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cuba-postpones-its-annual-cigar-fair-as-a-us-oil-siege-causes-severe-fuel-shortages-and-blackouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba postpones its annual cigar fair as a US oil siege causes severe fuel shortages and blackouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAVANA, Cuba (AP) \u2014 Cuba\u2019s annual cigar fair, which was set to be held the last week of February, has been postponed organizers said Saturday, as the island faces blackouts and severe fuel shortages brought about by a U.S oil embargo.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the cigar fair\u2019s organizer, Habanos S.A. said it decided to postpone the iconic event to \u201cpreserve its high standard of quality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAVANA, Cuba (AP) \u2014 Cuba\u2019s annual cigar fair, which was set to be held the last week of February, has been postponed organizers said Saturday, as the island faces blackouts and severe fuel shortages brought about by a U.S oil embargo. In a statement, the cigar fair\u2019s organizer, Habanos S.A. said it decided to postpone the iconic event to \u201cpreserve its high standard of quality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}