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President Trump has indicated he's keeping an eye on Cuba and predicted on CNN that "Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon."
The Trump administration has a target set on Havana, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hovering over the scope. Off the back of the January capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, and a stunning ongoing military campaign with Iran, the rising ...
President Trump has shown Cuba’s Communist rulers two ways their reign over the island can end: the Maduro way or the Khamenei way. The Cuban regime is a mix of gerontocracy, nepotism, and socialism — its official face is President Miguel Diaz-Canel,
We cut off all oil, all money, or we cut off everything coming in from Venezuela, which was the sole source. And they want to make a deal,” Trump told POLITICO.
President Donald Trump declared in Saturday remarks to a dozen Latin American and Caribbean heads of state that Cuba’s communist regime is “in its last moments of life. ” Trump addressed 12 leaders of Western Hemisphere nations — including Argentinian President Javier Milei and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele — at the first “Shield of the Americas” Summit in Doral,
Social media video shows protests breaking out in Havana as thousands of people across Cuba remain without electricity amid the island’s energy crisis.
The top Justice Department prosecutor in Miami is considering criminal investigations of Cuban government officials
Rather than force regime change, President Trump and Marco Rubio aim to win control of the island by deepening its economic dependence on the US.
President Trump claimed Friday that the Communist dictatorship on the island of Cuba is on its last legs. “Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon, by the way, unrelated, but Cuba is gonna fall too,” the president told CNN host Dana Bash in a phone interview.
Speculation about what's next for Havana comes as the U.S. continues to attack Iran and shortly after Trump ordered U.S. forces to depose Venezuela's president.
How Cuban Americans in South Florida view the ongoing Trump negotiations depends on many factors, including how long they have lived in the U.S. and whether they still have family in Cuba.