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Trump Says US Will Do 'Something With Cuba' Soon as Rubio Calls for New Leaders

Trump Says US Will Do 'Something With Cuba' Soon as Rubio Calls for New Leaders

Is Cuba's crisis caused by a cruel U.S. blockade strangling its people or by 67 years of communist misrule and repression?
Trump Says US Will Do 'Something With Cuba' Soon as Rubio Calls for New Leaders
Above: U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the White House on March 17. Image credit: Niall Carson/PA Images/Getty Images

The Spin

The U.S. blockade is a deliberate strategy to strangle Cuba into submission, cutting off fuel and plunging an entire population into darkness, hunger and despair. Washington's goal has always been to manufacture social collapse until Cubans surrender their sovereignty. This kind of economic warfare against civilians is cruelty dressed up as foreign policy.

Cuba's catastrophic collapse is entirely the communist regime's own doing after 67 years of economic incompetence and brutal repression. It's outrageous that the dictatorship that stole property and drove millions into exile now wants those same exiles to bankroll its survival. No deal should reward tyrants; the only real solution is the regime's end and genuine freedom for the Cuban people.

Metaculus Prediction

There's a 5% chance that U.S. President Donald J. Trump will visit Cuba before Jan. 20, 2029, according to the Metaculus prediction community.



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