Rubio calls for new Cuban leaders as latest blackout underscores deepening economic crisis [View all]

Source: AP

HAVANA (AP) — The Trump administration made clear Tuesday that it sees Cuba as the next country where the U.S. can play out its desires on the world stage.

“Cuba right now is in very bad shape,” President Donald Trump said, a day after Cuba’s third nationwide blackout in four months as the socialist island’s economy suffers under U.S. sanctions.

“And we’ll be doing something with Cuba very soon,” the president added.

Until recently, Trump’s comments on change in the socialist island nation might have been considered remarkable. But they come after his administration’s audacious U.S. military raid that captured then-President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, cutting off oil exports from that nation that had propped up the Cuban economy. They also follow the launch of U.S. military strikes against Iran earlier this month.

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