Cuba’s oil bid angers U.S.

MEXICO CITY – A move by Cuba to interest American energy companies in investing in the communist nation resulted in a quick rebuke by the U.S. government.

After Friday’s meetings between Cuban energy officials and members of the American energy sector at the Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel, the U.S. government informed the hotel’s parent company, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, that its Mexican subsidiary was not allowed to have the Cubans as guests.

..”America has what Cuba needs in terms of food, and Cuba has what America needs in terms of oil,” said Ruben Bonilla, the chairman of the Port of Corpus Christi Commission. “The energy sector is the next cornerstone in ending the embargo.”

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