The US president has turned his ire on the Caribbean island nation simply days after his forces kidnapped Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro
US President Donald Trump has somebody in thoughts to be the subsequent chief of Cuba – his secretary of state, Marco Rubio.
On Sunday, Trump reposted a picture of an X put up that jokingly claimed that the highest US diplomat could be made the president of the Caribbean island.
“Sounds good to me!” Trump responded on Truth Social.
In a follow-up message, he accused Cuba of subsisting on oil cash from Venezuela.
The latter nation’s president, Nicolas Maduro, was kidnapped by US particular forces final week following months of strain from Washington, after which Trump demanded “total access” to the South American nation’s oil. Quite a lot of Cubans in Maduro’s private safety workforce had been killed within the raid.
In his Truth Social put up, Trump confirmed that “most of those Cubans are DEAD” and the US will now “protect” Venezuela and urged Havana to “make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.”
Just hours later, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel decried Washington’s assumed ethical superiority and accused it of “attacking” Cuba for 66 years.
“Those who turn everything into a business, even human lives, have no moral authority to point fingers at Cuba on anything, absolutely anything,” he wrote on X.
The island nation’s “severe economic shortages” are the fault of “the draconian measures of extreme strangulation that the US has been applying to us for six decades,” he mentioned.
Washington has maintained a complete commerce embargo of the Caribbean nation for the reason that Nineteen Sixties. While the Obama and Biden administrations took steps to normalize relations, after his reelection final January, Trump reinstated Cuba on the listing of state sponsors of terrorism.
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