North American President Donald Trump said this Friday (6) that the Cuban government will fall “very soon” and added that Havana has an “immense desire” to negotiate with Washington, according to the television station CNN.
In a telephone conversation with CNN about the military operation launched by the United States and Israel in Iran, Trump announced that the communist regime on the island of Cuba will be the next target, after a “successful” campaign in the Middle East, which has lasted seven days and whose initial bombings resulted in the death of the Iranian supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and a large part of his closest circle.
“Cuba will fall very soon, in fact, without any relation to the matter, but Cuba will also fall. They have a great desire to reach an agreement”he declared.
According to the North American President, the Cubans “want to reach an agreement” and, to negotiate, he appointed his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, a Cuban-North American citizen.
“We’ll see how it goes. For now, we’re very focused on this, Iran,” he added. “We have a lot of time, but Cuba is ready, after 50 years. I’ve been observing it for 50 years,” he said.
On Thursday, the Republican had said that Havana “was desperate” to reach an agreement with his Government immediately and that it was “only a matter of time” before the United States again turns its attention to the Caribbean island, implying that the military campaign against Iran has somewhat diverted the White House’s plans.
Also On Thursday, in an interview with the digital newspaper Politico, Trump stated that the fall of Cuba would be “the icing on the cake”, following last January’s military attack on Venezuelain which the United States captured the then President, Nicolás Maduro, Havana’s closest ally.
Trump gave as an example “the wonderful collaboration” with the government of interim Chavista President Delcy Rodríguez, with which Washington announced on Thursday that it will reestablish diplomatic relations, after decades of estrangement from Caracas.
In recent weeks, American media have reported contacts between Marco Rubio and Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, grandson of former Cuban president Raúl Castro.
Such news describes contacts, not negotiations, and indicates supposed conversations about possible future gradual economic reforms on the island and a phased withdrawal of Washington’s sanctions, whose worsening in recent times has left the country on the brink of rupture, at the mercy of humanitarian aid from neighboring countries to meet needs as basic as food.
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