Cuba is already pursuing a number of green alternatives for powering civilian infrastructure, however jet fuel is one of those irreplaceable few fossil fuels that the nation is struggling to secure reserves of. If I remember correctly, Cuba considered domestic refining of jet fuel but the process was prohibitively expensive without an economy of scale and the planners couldn't justify the expenditure.
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The main issue with the renewable jet fuel idea is that the design inherently requires CO2 derived from ethanol production as Cuba doesn't have nearly enough heavy industry to facilitate relying solely on direct capture. That reliance on ethanol would make Cuba even more reliant on the US as the nation already imports a substantial amount of corn from Argentina, Brazil, and the US already for animal feed and flour refining.