President Trump Says We May Have “Friendly Takeover Of Cuba”
By Danielle
President Trump told reporters on Friday that there may be a “friendly takeover” of Cuba.
“The Cuban government is talking with us. They’re in a big deal of trouble as you know,” Trump said.
“They have no money. They have no anything right now. But they’re talking with us,” he continued.
“Maybe we’ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba. We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba,” he added.
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Trump imposed a fuel blockade on the island in an executive order at the end of January in a push to collapse the regime, which relies heavily on energy and food imports.
The United Nations’s top official for Cuba warned on Wednesday that daily life on the island is “becoming fragile” with increased strains on health care, water services and food distribution.
U.S. officials reportedly met Thursday with the grandson of 94-year-old former president Raúl Castro, considered the de facto leader of the totalitarian regime, on the sidelines of a conference in the Caribbean attended by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Castro’s grandson, Raúl Guillermo Rodriguez Castro, serves as his grandfather’s bodyguard and is believed to oversee Cuba’s armed forces’s conglomerate, known as GAESA, which controls much of the island’s economy. The Miami Herald reported that in 2024, GAESA had about $18 billion in assets and in unknown bank accounts.
The Cuban government has instituted emergency measures to deal with the U.S. fuel quarantine and is said to have between six and seven weeks of fuel left before falling into a major blackout.