Analysts have said the Russian oil would buy the Cuban economy only a few weeks. Jorge Piñón, an expert on Cuba’s energy sector at the University of Texas at Austin, said the more urgent need is diesel, which could be used for backup power generators or for transportation systems.
Millions of people are still without power, with food rotting in fridges and no water supply in many homes.
President Trump says a statutory ban on tourism to Cuba will be enforced more strictly.
The actor may not have known his wife was dead inside the home he was living in because of the disease.