WASHINGTON.— El US President Donald Trumpassured yesterday Friday that the Cuban government will fall “very soon” and reiterated that Havana He “very much wants” to negotiate with Washingtonaccording to the chain CNN.
In an interview about military operation launched by the United States and Israel against Iran, Trump insisted that the communist island would be the next target after a “successful” campaign in the Persian country, which yesterday reached its seventh day and in whose initial attacks the Iranian supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, was killed, and much of its dome.
“Cuba is going to fall very soon, by the way, without any relation, but Cuba is also going to fall. They really want to reach an agreement,” he told the American media in a brief telephone conversation.
According to the US president, the Cubans “want to reach an agreement”, negotiations of which he has entrusted his Secretary of State, the Cuban-American Marco Rubio. “We’ll see how it goes. Right now we are very focused on this,” he added.
“We have plenty of time, but Cuba is ready, after 50 years. I have been watching it for 50 years,” he indicated.
A day earlier, the Republican warned that Havana is “desperate” to reach a deal with his administration immediately and assured that “it is only a matter of time” before they turn their sights towards the caribbean country, implying that the military campaign against Iran has diverted something the focus of the White House.
He also said on Thursday, in an interview with Politico, what The fall of Cuba would be “the icing on the cake” after the operation last January in which the United States captured Nicolás Maduro, Havana’s closest ally.
Trump has given as an example the “wonderful” collaboration with the Chavista interim government Delcy Rodríguez.
In recent weeks, US media have reported on contacts between the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubioy a grandson of former Cuban President Raúl Castro, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro.
These reports speak of contacts rather than negotiations, and indicate alleged conversations about possible and future gradual economic reforms on the island.
Break with Ecuador
Besides, The diplomatic mission of Cuba in Ecuador left the country yesterday when the 48-hour period expired granted by the government of Daniel Noboa for them to leave, after declaring the ambassador and his delegation as “non grata” people.
Before the departure of the diplomatic personnel, the Cuban flag was removed from the embassy located in the north of Quito.
The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed yesterday in a statement that its embassy in the Ecuadorian capital “ceases its functions as a diplomatic headquarters” due to the “impossibility of maintaining representation” in the Andean country.
Ecuador declared the Cuban ambassador “persona non grata” on Wednesday Basilio Antonio Gutiérrez and its diplomatic staff without explaining the reasons, in an action that Cuba described as “arbitrary and unjustified.”
He Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel he questioned what he called a “hostile” gesture product of a “policy of clear submission of Ecuador to imperial interests” of the United States.
Just yesterday, the Cuban government announced the withdrawal of the brigade of medical health professionals that provided services in Jamaica and he regretted that that Caribbean country decided to cease Cuban medical cooperation “giving in to pressure from the United States.”
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