President Donald Trump has urged Cuba to make a deal with the U.S. as he uses Venezuela to crank up the pressure on the island.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says his administration is not in talks with the U.S. government. This comes a day after President Donald Trump threatened Cuba following the U.S. attack on Venezuela earlier this month.

With widespread power outages, medicine shortages and rising food prices, experts say Cuba’s economy has never been worse, with the crisis coming just as the supply of Venezuelan oil is threatened.

Former deputy national security advisor K.T. McFarland said the Trump administration was in a good negotiating position with Cuba as the country would be starving “in about a week’s time,” as Trump ices out the country from Venezuelan resources.

U.S. intelligence has painted a grim picture of Cuba’s economic and political situation, but its assessments offer no clear support for President Donald Trump’s prediction that last weekend’s military action in nearby Venezuela leaves the island nation “ready to fall,

There is no opposition capable of igniting change from the inside. The intricate barter system that Cuba and Venezuela developed to survive U.S. sanctions may be hard to unwind, especially since the regime in Caracas continues to reign,