You know, I’m old enough to remember a kinder, gentler America, with safe suburban streets of well-kept houses where a kid could go out on his bike after school and not return until sunset around six years later after which he would just sit silently in a corner of the house staring into the middle distance and occasionally pulling the legs off a spider or a mouse or maybe his kid sister while dreaming of the day he’d be free to hunt and kill at will… or maybe that was just me.
But in any case, today’s America is so hostile and so divided, that I just wish we could find a way to build bridges of communication and even friendship between conservatives and the flaming dirtbags trying to destroy everything that good people hold dear.
It’s not that all progressives are sinister Communist authoritarian perverts looking to bring the nation to its knees by allying themselves with Islamist terrorists and illegal immigrant gangsters in order to reduce our civilization to ashes then seize power in the ensuing chaos so they can enchain us in yet another of their drab utopias where everyone is equally miserable except for the small cadre of bitter lowlifes who derive some small pleasure from imposing their own unhappiness on everyone else — well, okay it is that, but it’s also the smug look on the faces of these schmucks that just makes you want to squeeze their noses between the knuckles of your first two fingers and twist them like Moe used to do to Curly on “The Three Stooges,” except not playing around this time.
But as Christians, we have to remember that Jesus told us to love our enemies and, sure, a lot of good that did him, but still, it’s up to us to try to understand those of our fellow citizens whose deeply-held principles lead them to oppose anything that even smells remotely like common decency.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1272-the-andrew-klavan-show?elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-large wp-image-974735 aligncenter" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/Klavan-watch-now-1024x171.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="171" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/Klavan-watch-now-1024x171.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/Klavan-watch-now-300x50.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/Klavan-watch-now-768x128.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/Klavan-watch-now-1536x256.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/Klavan-watch-now.jpg 1800w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>
For instance, take Ilhan Omar. Here’s a woman who escaped the violence of civil war in the primitive hellhole called Somalia, an African word that means “please get me out of this primitive hellhole.” By the grace of a loving God who clearly just wasn’t paying attention that day, Omar’s family was granted asylum here in the United States, where she then rose to become a congresswoman in the corruption-riddled filth-pit of Minnesota, an Indian word that means, “Please get me out of this corruption-riddled filth-pit.”
Surely, such a woman must feel deep gratitude to a country so welcoming and generous and self-destructive.
And yet the other day, Congresswoman Omar said she was “incredibly proud” of her daughter Isra for traveling with other assorted snot-faced idiots to the Communist cesspool called Cuba, a Spanish word meaning, “Please get me out of this Communist cesspool.” The luxurious Cuban junket was intended, Omar said, to show solidarity with Cuba against the United States because the U.S. is cruelly attempting to free the Cubans from Communist cess-poolery. Omar went on to call her daughter a “brilliant young leader,” presumably referring to Isra’s arrest for demonstrating at Columbia University in support of the Iranian-funded rapist-murderers called Hamas, and also to the t-shirt Isra wore to Cuba celebrating the George Floyd-inspired burning of Minneapolis, an Indian word that means, “Please get me out of Minneapolis.”
So, in an attempt to build bridges of friendship with the congresswoman, I wrote her a polite email, saying, “Dear Communist terrorist witch-demon, shouldn’t you show more gratitude to the country that rescued you from a hellhole and elected you to Congress in a filth-pit?”
To give credit where credit is due, Congresswoman Omar did reply promptly, writing, “Your Islamophobia is not who we are as Americans. Who we are as Americans are people who allow a Somalian grifter to play us for suckers while she’s simultaneously plotting to crush us under the iron heel of Islamist Communism. That’s who we are as Americans, if by ‘we’ I mean you.”
So there it is, my friends, we really can learn to communicate with those on the other side of the political aisle. Just remember to wear a steel-tipped boot and aim for the ass.
* * *
This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.”
Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. Klavan is the bestselling author of numerous books, including the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The fifth installment, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/After-That-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries/dp/1613166869/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EGZUC370LG46&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Y_NI0mDOKeowShheDQTVx5NH-fAeimJoCD56_T0Acpl8C0mup7uJf-nGGSRLEItaaekoDnvS2vWLMa4Zd2UBXQ8Y-g-P502jOWz-Y8IX3ZQsdlO7WMLrg1xIhNoKmjCorSWUR4C2l_RbiZ7apJ1MfPzGOrrEf7AdAXX6xwnJRVP_XqUfWuMuVthTWscaU3P4vgmS86-96n-721enHfX12CFQWTajqFbVnrsDkexfUf4.6_gTH6h1Bb9Pn375QdF_VAVZSayDvjQBBKGXE-MTiFo&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=klavan&amp;qid=1754049918&amp;sprefix=%2Caps%2C80&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">After That, The Dark,</a> is NOW AVAILABLE. Follow him on X: <a href="https://x.com/andrewklavan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@andrewklavan</a>.
The views expressed in this satirical piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

President Trump Delivers The State Of The Union Address

Yes, We Can Learn To Communicate Across The Political Aisle. Here’s How.

Andrew Klavan

Cuba

Democrats

Humor

Ilhan Omar

Republicans

Satire

“You know what we call a gram of coke here in Cuba?”
In the humid outskirts of Havana, I felt like I’d drifted into a sepia-tinted parallel timeline.
“A ‘Fidel’.”
My laughter wasn’t forthcoming. Not that it wasn’t funny. I was paralyzed by the surrealism. It was the last week of six decades of Castro rule and the final week of Raúl Castro’s presidency, yet here I was with his granddaughter Gabriella. And her boyfriend was selling me drugs.
Hadn’t her grandparents put people to death for selling drugs? Yes. Four high-ranking officials were executed by firing squad in 1989 for drug-smuggling. Despite this, her presence gave me an odd sense of safety. Some farm animals are more equal than others. And these, surely, were the most equal of all.
“And half a gram?”
He eyed me.
“…a ‘Raul’.”
Try as they might, Marxists can’t escape hierarchies. I wondered if they’d caught the irony. At least this one had a sense of humor. I turned to see if Gabriella was amused. The Castro name is quite a burden to carry. New World nobility. Her face remained stoic as a Castilian queen. She was more interested in the music.
If this was their way of welcoming me to their country, they went overboard with the midnight Lada racing through the capital. Cuba’s cocaine communists really put North London’s champagne socialists to shame.
Speaking of which, in the latest season of Radical Chic, eight years on from the Castros, a flotilla of useful halfwits has arrived.
From England comes cardigan-commie Jeremy Corbyn, Labour backbencher Richard Burgon, and YouTuber Owen Jones. Influencer Hasan Piker swapped Hollywood for Havana, wearing glasses worth $1,380 and a $690 T-shirt. “We have just been living la vida loca … Just peppering people with wads of cash,” he humbly divulged to the press — oblivious to what this revealed about which society better delivers material prosperity.
He was joined by fellow Americans Christian Smalls, the former Amazon unionist, the women-led anti-war group CODEPINK, and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s daughter Isra Hirsi. Isra proudly following in her mother’s footsteps by siding with the enemies of the nation that so warmly welcomed her family from Somalia.
They are all part of the Nuestra América Convoy, which arrived in Havana this week. The delegation brought together over 650 people from 33 countries and 120 organizations, delivering roughly 20 tons of humanitarian aid. What a hoot. I only hope their phones have enough battery to capture selfies when they hear ordinary Cubans chanting “Down with communism!” through the blackouts.
And that is exactly what Cubans have been chanting in Morón, outside the local headquarters of the Communist Party of Cuba. But the Nuestra América Convoy is not there to protest decades of brutal dictatorship, but rather the US “blockade,” recently reinforced by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
On 29 January, the United States issued Executive Order 14380, titled “Addressing Threats to the United States by the Government of Cuba.” In it, President Trump declared that the situation with respect to Cuba “constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat” and announced a national emergency.
The real question is how long it will take Corbyn &amp; Co to realise they are on the side of Cuba’s dictatorial regime. After all, none of them have uttered a word about the lack of democracy in a country where only Communist Party members may hold office.
Not a peep about the breadlines — which I have witnessed on every one of my trips to Cuba over the last twenty years, both during and since the Castro era. Breadlines in Santiago de Cuba. Breadlines in Trinidad. Breadlines in Havana.
While there have been <a href="https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2036521369492725871?s=20">interesting reports</a> about how the Radical Chic Flotilla was funded by the US-born self-described Marxist billionaire Neville Roy Singham, the root of this idiocy was perhaps best articulated by the Irish rap band Kneecap.
If the Black Panthers had Leonard Bernstein, what does it say about the Nuestra América Convoy that their house band are Kneecap? The Belfast hip-hop trio is most famous for its vocal support of Hamas and Hezbollah — and the resulting terrorism charges against one member. On a Havana boulevard, they dish out their Radical Chic <a href="https://x.com/ultras_antifaa/status/2035502703804080378?s=20">insights to the press</a>.
Móglaí Bap, Kneecap’s rapper, has things to get off his chest: “I can’t remember the last time Cuba invaded a country.” Bless his cotton socks. They have. Panama and the Dominican Republic (1959), Algeria (1963–64), Congo (1965–67), Guinea-Bissau (1966–74), Angola (1975–91), Ethiopia (1977–89), Syria (1973–83), Mozambique (1975–80s), South Yemen (1970s–80s), Nicaragua (1979–90s), and Grenada (1979–83).
But it’s not just stupidity that motivates Kneecap. “They wanna isolate all these countries and make them feel like they have no support … and then when that happens, that’s when imperialism takes over.” Here Bap gets to the heart of it.
Anti-imperialism. It is the same blind ideology that has these rappers supporting the forces of evil wherever they emerge: Gaza, Tehran, Caracas. But it could not be more fitting than here in communist Cuba, for it is the central pillar of Castroism.
“I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.”
So said Fidel Castro in a telegram to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev on 26 October 1962, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/23/opinion/castro-wanted-a-nuclear-strike.html">According to Fedor Burlatsky</a> — a member of Khrushchev’s inner circle — this was the real turning point. So shocked was Khrushchev by Castro’s brazen desire for national suicide that the Soviet leader immediately changed tack and sought a resolution with President Kennedy. Imagine an ideological derangement so potent it makes Soviets blush.
Today, despite the cries for “libertad!” from Cubans downtrodden by six decades of this anti-imperialist experiment, the ideology is thriving — not in Cuba, but in the coffee shops of Islington, the vegan restaurants of Beverly Hills, and the congressional district offices of Minnesota. Anti-imperialism is the ultimate luxury belief.
My last interaction with Gabriella Castro came as we stepped out of the car after racing around Havana. She’d made it clear she was staunchly anti-American, but I thought I’d poke a bit further.
“How does one say ‘friends’ in Spanish?” I asked, knowing the answer but pretending otherwise.
“Amigos.”
“But what if it’s male and female?”
“Amigos.”
“It’s still masculine?”
“Sí.”
“Isn’t that a little…”
“Sexist. Yes…”
She paused, looking seriously into the distance.
“…we should change it.”
***
This is republished with the author&#8217;s permission from Substack: <a href="https://www.winstonmarshall.co.uk/p/cocaine-with-the-castros">www.winstonmarshall.co.uk/p/cocaine-with-the-castros</a>.
Winston Marshall is a writer, musician, and host of &#8220;The Winston Marshall Show&#8221; podcast. His writing is available on his Substack, Winston Marshall:  <a href="https://www.winstonmarshall.co.uk/">https://www.winstonmarshall.co.uk/</a>.

Cuba – Cienfuegos: Old cyclist and revolutionary propaganda with picture of Fidel Castro on house wall.

Cocaine With The Castros

Communism

Global Politics

Havana

The communist dictatorship in Cuba has never been closer to collapse. Thankfully, the cadre of leftist American activists and influencers that descended on Havana this week will not be able to save it. While the island endured its second total electrical grid collapse in a matter of days, the regime welcomed a delegation of limousine socialists from the United States. They quickly pulled out their phones, merging grotesque voyeuristic <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/03/22/world-news/champagne-socialists-in-cuba-stage-concert-stay-in-5-star-hotel-as-country-plunges-into-nationwide-blackout/">slum tourism</a> with propagandistic livestreams from their five-star, regime-owned hotel. As their diesel generators hummed, the rest of the country starved in the dark.
The good news? This is late-stage communism. Cuba’s 67-year-old experiment with Marxist ideology could finally end if the Trump administration avoids the traps of negotiation and holds the line on its successful oil embargo. It would be a historic accomplishment for Trump 2.0, and petroleum is the key.
Margaret Thatcher famously observed that the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money. This is happening in real time in present-day Cuba: The government has run out of other people’s oil. It scraped by for decades on Venezuelan crude shipments, using Venezuela&#8217;s oil imports to generate electricity, which is the least efficient task imaginable. This imported crude is in addition to the 25,000 barrels of oil per day that the regime pumps for itself.
The ouster of Nicolás Maduro and President Trump’s total oil embargo have set a countdown clock for the regime. The punishment will continue; the power outages will get worse. What’s more, they presage a breakdown in the paltry benefits the regime still offers.
Decades ago, Bernie Sanders <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ad-v0qpB3A&amp;t=22s">infamously claimed</a> that bread lines were “a good thing” because they meant that the poor were not starving. Eventually, he argued, people received bread. The 2026 energy shortage in Cuba has given that interpretation a new, grim twist. Limited gasoline for transportation and power for baking means that there will be less bread for the bread lines.
As President Trump recently noted, “They have no energy. They have no money. They’re in deep trouble.” Trump is correct.
Deputy Cuban Foreign Minister Fernández de Cossío declared that the oil blockade “cannot be sustained forever.” The regime is obviously betting that the White House will eventually cave and let foreign tankers arrive in Cuban ports. This should not happen, since it will extend the lifespan of this regime once more.
Conditions on the ground are ripe for public unrest not seen since Cuba’s nationwide protests in July 2021. Unlike the previous unrest due to blackouts, however, the regime no longer has a Venezuelan patron to bail them out. Their current strategy is to play for time.
Here’s what we do next:
The administration must hold the line on the current oil embargo. The Cuban regime has learned how to manipulate public opinion by claiming that an end to the U.S. embargo will end the poverty of the Cuban people. In reality, it is the regime’s communist economic policies that have made them poor. It is why the <a href="https://x.com/TheCCShowcast/status/2035796964529365458?s=20">cavalcade of socialist influencers has backfired</a> on the government.
By showcasing the desperate poverty of the Cuban people and retreating to their hotel rooms to broadcast their support for the regime from a swanky 42-story high-rise, the woke circus of the “Stop the Siege” campaign inadvertently showed the disconnect between the luxury of communist elites and the people they imprison.
Next, the administration should not accept the “Venezuelan model” for Cuba. Simply replacing a few leaders at the top will not cure the island’s woes.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio seems to understand this, recently declaring that Cuba’s current leaders “can’t fix it,” namely, the economy. This is accurate. It is also why asking for a change in management at the top will not work.
Cuba needs a fundamental restructuring, similar to Central Europe after 1989.
As we learned from successful post-communist countries in Europe, gradual reforms lead to corruption and take too long to yield the desired results. Conversely, rapid changes shock the system into embracing free-market mechanisms that have not existed for decades. Poland and the Czech Republic are the shining examples of this rapid teardown and rebuilding.
Lastly, President Trump can and should do more to use the bully pulpit of his presidency to encourage the Cuban people. Ultimately, they cannot be “given” freedom; they must use the regime&#8217;s weakness to seize their own national destiny. Trump has the loudest megaphone in the world; he should use it to remind everyday Cubans that America is waiting to make the island rich through trade, investment, and most importantly, energy.
Because none of this can happen while the current regime remains in power, the White House should fully embrace a straightforward idea: “Viva Cuba libre.”
***
Peter Doran is a Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He previously served as a Foreign Affairs Fellow for Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and later served with the Cuba Development Initiative at the OAS.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

A protester holds a Cuban flag during the demonstration.

Trump Must Hold The Line On The Cuba Oil Embargo

Bernie Sanders

Crude Oil

Donald Trump

Cuba is preparing for the possibility of military conflict with the United States, a top Cuban official warned Sunday, as tensions between the two countries continue to escalate.
“Our military is always prepared, and in fact it is preparing these days for the possibility of military aggression,” Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío said in an interview on &#8220;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/cuban-deputy-fm-reacts-to-trump-s-threats-to-take-over-cuba-full-interview-259825733583?utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm">Meet the Press</a>.&#8221; “We would be naïve” not to consider the possibility, he added, while insisting that Havana “truly hope[s] that it doesn’t occur” and sees “no justification whatsoever” for conflict.
The warning comes after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-he-can-take-cuba-i-could-do-anything-i-want-with-it">series of statements</a> from President Donald Trump as his administration ramps up pressure on the island’s communist government. He said he would have the “honor” of “taking Cuba in some form … Free it. Take it. I think I could do anything I want with it.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio has <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/5787874-cuba-political-change-rubio/">also signaled</a> that Cuba’s leadership is in a precarious position, warning that those in power “don’t know how to fix” the country’s mounting crises.
Fernández de Cossío dismissed those remarks, insisting that regime change is “absolutely” not up for discussion. “The Cuban political system is not up for negotiation,” he said. “Cuba is a sovereign country … and would not accept becoming a dependent state of any other power.”
The standoff comes as Cuba faces a severe and worsening economic crisis, driven in large part by an energy shortage that has crippled the island. The Trump administration has moved to choke off fuel supplies by threatening penalties on countries that export oil to Cuba, a policy Cuban officials describe as a “very severe” blockade.
“What’s happening today is that the U.S. is threatening … any country that might export fuel to Cuba,” Fernández de Cossío said, arguing the pressure campaign “cannot be sustained forever.”
However, Cuba has already experienced repeated <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-government-riot-breaks-out-in-cuba-over-blackouts?author=Reuters&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Anti-Government+Riot+Breaks+Out+In+Cuba+Over+Blackouts">nationwide blackouts</a> in recent weeks, including multiple grid collapses that left much of the island without electricity. With limited fuel, transportation, hospitals, and food distribution systems have all come under strain.
Tensions have also intensified following a U.S. military operation earlier this year that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, a key ally of the Cuban regime.
The loss of Venezuelan oil shipments, long a lifeline for Cuba’s economy, has compounded the island’s crisis and further strained relations with Washington.
Despite the rhetoric, both sides have acknowledged ongoing communication. Fernández de Cossío confirmed that Cuban and U.S. officials remain in dialogue on certain bilateral issues, though he stressed that core political questions such as leadership and single-party governance are off the table.
“No sovereign country negotiates its internal political system,” he said. Cuban officials have rejected calls for political reform, with Fernández de Cossío criticizing the U.S. system in return, noting that America itself operates under a two-party structure.
While Cuban officials emphasized readiness, they also sought to downplay the likelihood of imminent conflict. “Our country has historically been ready to mobilize … for military aggression,” Fernández de Cossío said. “We truly always see it as something far from us. We don’t believe it is something that is probable.” Still, he reiterated that failing to prepare would be a mistake given current global tensions.
The warnings come as Cuba faces one of the most precarious moments in decades: economic collapse, widespread blackouts, and growing public frustration. At the same time, the regime continues to reject any discussion of structural political change, even as pressure mounts from both abroad and within the island. For now, Havana is signaling two things at once: it wants to avoid war, but is preparing for it anyway.

Cuba. Havana. Theatre Detail

Cuba Prepares For Possible U.S. Military Action As Tensions Surge

Trump Administration

Venezuela

World

Cuba said it had begun efforts early on Sunday to restore power after its grid collapsed for the second time in a week amid a U.S. oil blockade that has dealt a major blow to the island&#8217;s already ailing energy infrastructure.
The grid collapsed Saturday evening at 6:32 p.m. (2232 GMT) after a major power plant in Nuevitas, in eastern Cuba&#8217;s Camaguey province, failed and went offline, grid operator UNE said, causing a cascade effect that knocked out power to the nation&#8217;s approximately 10 million people.
Cuba&#8217;s energy and mines ministry said early on Sunday it had established microsystems &#8211; smaller, closed circuits &#8211; in all of the island&#8217;s provinces to restore power for vital services like hospitals, water supply and food distribution.
The country&#8217;s two gas-fired power plants, operated by Energas, were running in Varadero and Boca de Jaruco, and electricity had reached the nearby Santa Cruz oil-fired plant, the energy ministry said on social media.
Shortly after sunrise on Sunday, the streets of the capital Havana were crowded with early risers sitting on doorsteps, lamenting the situation with neighbors and swatting mosquitoes in cool weather under clear skies.
&#8220;Life doesn&#8217;t change. We&#8217;re stuck in the same rut,&#8221; said Havana resident Leoni Alberto, who said he was forced to cook with firewood at least twice a week due to the outages. &#8220;It&#8217;s absolute madness. There&#8217;s no other way around it.&#8221;
Cellular service and internet was almost entirely unavailable in most areas, leaving many without communication of any kind.
Cuban prime minister Manuel Marrero said the recovery effort was taking place under &#8220;very complex circumstances.&#8221;
Cuba&#8217;s electrical grid has been teetering on the edge of collapse and unreliable for months, leaving the island&#8217;s residents in the dark for hours a day, and sometimes longer, even in better times.
But Saturday&#8217;s blackout incident marks the third major power outage this month, as a majority of the system went down on March 4 when a key thermoelectric generating plant failed. The power grid also went completely offline on Monday for unexplained reasons.
Cuba has experienced a series of total outages in recent years, but two nationwide blackouts in the space of a week is exceptional.
U.S. President Donald Trump began taking measures to block oil from reaching the Caribbean island after Washington deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3. Venezuela had previously provided oil to its close ally on favorable terms.
Since then, Trump has cut off Venezuelan exports to Cuba and threatened other countries with punitive tariffs if they sell oil to the island.
Cuba has long blamed the U.S. trade embargo for economic failures including its obsolete power grid, while Washington has attributed the shortfalls to Cuba&#8217;s Soviet-style command economy.
(Reporting by Dave Sherwood in Havana; additional reporting by Anett Rios and Alien Fernandez, Editing by Hugh Lawson)

Cuba Begins Recovery Efforts After Second Grid Collapse In A Week

Energy

Hundreds of left-wing activists from the United States, Europe, and Latin America descended on Havana this weekend, meeting with communist officials, staying in upscale hotels, and traveling in air-conditioned buses as ordinary Cubans grapple with widespread blackouts and severe shortages of basic necessities.
The “Nuestra América Convoy,” also called the “Our America Convoy to Cuba,” brought roughly 650 delegates from 33 countries and more than 100 organizations to the island, transporting about 20 tons of humanitarian aid, according to organizers.
Delegates arrived by air from countries including Italy, France, Spain, and the United States, with additional participants traveling by sea in a flotilla from Mexico. Some activists arrived earlier in the week, delivering supplies to hospitals in advance of the main delegation.
Some delegates were reportedly housed in high-end accommodations, including five-star hotels, while others were seen traveling in air-conditioned buses and attending official meetings with Miguel Díaz-Canel at government facilities.
Large portions of the island have experienced prolonged blackouts, with outages in some areas stretching beyond 20 hours a day. The country’s fragile infrastructure has been pushed to the brink, leaving millions struggling to access food, water, and medical care.
The Cuban government and activists have blamed U.S. energy restrictions, particularly moves by Donald Trump to target oil shipments, for exacerbating the island’s economic collapse. Organizers framed the convoy as a direct challenge to what they describe as “collective punishment.”
“We cannot allow this,” said David Adler of Progressive International, one of the groups behind the effort. “We cannot normalize it.” Cuban officials echoed that message, with Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío insisting that the country’s political system is “not up for negotiation” in any talks with Washington. At the same time, critics argue the regime’s decades of centralized control and economic mismanagement have played a central role in the island’s long-running hardship.
The optics of foreign activists enjoying stable electricity and modern amenities while locals endure daily deprivation have drawn sharp backlash, particularly from Cuban exiles. “This is a gigantic mockery of the entire Cuban people,” said Mayra Dominguez, a Cuban living in exile in the United States, to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/03/21/world-news/tone-deaf-activists-flock-into-havana-staying-in-5-star-hotels-while-island-in-crisis-mockery-of-cuban-people/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThis%20is%20a%20gigantic%20mockery,It%20is%20outrageous%2C%E2%80%9D%20she%20added.">New York Post</a>. “The left visits Cuba as if it were a party at a zoo and they go to admire the misery from a luxury hotel.”
Cuban artist Salomé García Bacallao, now based in Miami, similarly criticized the government for welcoming foreign delegations while many Cubans remain barred from returning home.
The convoy includes a mix of activists, political figures, and organizations from across the global Left. Among them is leftist streamer Hasan Piker, who <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DVtURa3FFoa/">broadcast</a> from Havana to his large social media following while promising to produce additional “content” from the trip.
Other participants include international political figures such as Jeremy Corbyn and representatives from leftist parties across Latin America and Europe.
Some of the groups involved, such as The People’s Forum and Code Pink, have previously drawn scrutiny from U.S. officials over alleged <a href="https://naturalresources.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=415189">ties to foreign influence networks</a>.
The effort has also been linked to Mariela Castro, daughter of former Cuban leader Raúl Castro, underscoring the close coordination between activists and the Cuban government. Organizers say the convoy delivered solar panels, food, and medical supplies, including cancer treatments, to help alleviate the island’s crisis.
Cuba has also received aid shipments from countries including Mexico, Brazil, and China in recent weeks, as concerns grow over a potential humanitarian emergency. Still, questions remain about how the convoy’s aid will be distributed, and whether it will reach ordinary Cubans or be funneled through government-controlled channels.
Such efforts often double as political theater, bolstering the regime’s narrative while doing little to address systemic issues. The images coming out of Havana this weekend highlight a jarring divide: foreign activists documenting their “solidarity” tour with reliable electricity, comfortable transport, and direct access to top officials. Meanwhile, millions of Cubans live through daily blackouts, food shortages, and a collapsing economy.
For many watching, especially those forced to leave the island, the contrast is not just striking, it&#8217;s infuriating.

TOPSHOT-CUBA-MAY DAY-DEMO

Left-Wing Activists Descend On Crisis-Stricken Cuba, Enjoy Luxury Hotels, Ride AC Buses

<div>
In a move that surprises absolutely no one familiar with the &#8220;Gray Lady’s&#8221; obsession with laundering leftist narratives, the New York Times has once again been caught pushing anonymous leaks as front-page news. This time, the target is the Trump administration’s Cuba policy, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio isn&#8217;t just calling them out — he’s incinerating the outlet&#8217;s credibility.
</div>
<div>
The Times published a sensationalist report titled, “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/world/americas/trump-cuba-president-diaz-canel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TlA.Ygf9.a5SMOwYKG0cM#after-story-ad-7">Trump Administration Said to Tell Cuba That Its President Has to Go</a>,” alleging that U.S. negotiators are cutting backroom deals to swap Cuba&#8217;s figureheads while leaving the broader communist apparatus intact. The story relies heavily on anonymous sources and reads more like a fever dream of D.C. bureaucrats than actual reporting.
</div>
<div>
Rubio, the son of Cuban exiles whose political career is inextricably linked to the fight against Havana, took to X to dismantle the report with surgical precision. &#8220;The reason so many in US media keep putting out fake stories like this one is because they continue to rely on charlatans &amp; liars claiming to be in the know as their sources,&#8221; Rubio blasted.
</div>
<div>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
The reason so many in US media keep putting out fake stories like this one is because they continue to rely on charlatans &amp; liars claiming to be in the know as their sources. <a href="https://t.co/mfzZbeO9UT">https://t.co/mfzZbeO9UT</a>
&mdash; Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) <a href="https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/2034111671950594146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2026</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
&nbsp;
</div>
<div>
As the primary architect of the &#8220;hardline&#8221; approach — from the Cuba Restricted List to returning the regime to the State Sponsors of Terrorism list — Rubio has consistently argued that the only real &#8220;blockade&#8221; on the island is the one the regime imposes on its own people. Whether it&#8217;s medicine, the internet, or remittances, Rubio has spent years exposing how the regime uses control as a weapon. For the Times to suggest he is now negotiating with &#8220;Raulito&#8221; Castro to keep the system in place is not just a bad lead; it’s a deliberate insult to the exile community.
</div>
<div>
But this is par for the course for the Times. This is the same &#8220;Paper of Record&#8221; that <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/10/us-news/nyt-has-yet-to-issue-correction-for-wrongly-claiming-trump-falsely-accused-fema-of-avoiding-supporters-homes/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">spent weeks</a> &#8220;fact-checking&#8221; Donald Trump’s claims that FEMA neglected Republican homes — only to stay silent when FEMA itself admitted an official ordered workers to &#8220;avoid homes advertising Trump.&#8221; It’s the same outlet that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-humiliated-leavitt-dismantles-fake-news-narrative-on-trumps-health?utm_source=chatgpt.com">lacerated</a> for questioning the president’s fitness using anonymous hacks, while previously claiming a stumbling Joe Biden was &#8220;100% fine.&#8221;
</div>
<div>
For Rubio, the Times&#8217; Cuba piece is just the latest entry in a long ledger of institutional gaslighting. By relying on &#8220;charlatans&#8221; to push a narrative of managed transition, the Times is attempting to memory-hole the administration&#8217;s true goal: the total collapse of the Marxist dictatorship. Rubio’s message is clear: the administration isn&#8217;t interested in the Times’ symbolic reshuffling. While the &#8220;fact-checkers&#8221; continue to protect the regime, Rubio is busy reminding the world that if the regime wants the embargo to end, it can start by freeing political prisoners and holding fair elections.
</div>

Secretary Marco Rubio Meets With Ecuadoran Foreign Affairs Minister Gabriela Sommerfeld

‘Charlatans And Liars’: Rubio Torches The ‘Gray Lady’ Over Cuba Report

Marco Rubio

The New York Times

President Donald Trump said Monday that he could do “anything” he wants with Cuba, suggesting the United States could potentially take over the island nation and topple its communist government. 
When asked about his plans, Trump said he believed he would “have the honor of taking Cuba” in “some form.” After capturing Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and launching a military operation against Iran, Trump has said that Cuba could be the next focus of his administration. 
“I mean whether I free it, take it, I could do anything I want with it,” Trump said during an event at the White House. “They are a very weakened nation right now.  They were for a long time, very violent, very violent leaders. Castro was a very violent leader. His brother is a very violent leader. Extremely violent. That&#8217;s how they governed. They governed with violence, but a lot of people would like to go back.”
Trump, who has restricted oil shipments to Cuba through sanctions, said Cuban leaders are now in talks with U.S. officials.
“They&#8217;re talking to us. It&#8217;s a failed nation. They have no money, they have no oil, they have no nothing,” Trump said. 
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/world/americas/trump-cuba-president-diaz-canel.html">reported</a> Monday that American negotiators are pushing for Cuban President and Communist Party leader Miguel Díaz-Canel to be removed from power.
Earlier this month, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-predicts-another-dictatorship-could-fall-soon-suggests-sending-marco-rubio?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Predicts+Another+Dictatorship+Could+Fall+Soon+—+Suggests+Sending+Marco+Rubio">told</a> CNN that Cuba was “going to fall pretty soon” and suggested sending Secretary of State Marco Rubio there. 
In January 2026, Trump signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/addressing-threats-to-the-united-states-by-the-government-of-cuba/">executive order</a> declaring a national emergency related to Cuba and imposing tariffs on countries that trade or do business with the island. 
“I find that the policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Cuba directly threaten the safety, national security, and foreign policy of the United States,” Trump wrote in the executive order. “The policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Cuba are designed to harm the United States and support hostile countries, transnational terrorist groups, and malign actors that seek to destroy the United States.”

US-POLITICS-TRUMP

Trump Says He Can ‘Take’ Cuba: ‘I Could Do Anything I Want With It’

Foreign Policy

Anti-government protesters attacked a Communist Party office in northern Cuba early on Saturday, a state-run newspaper reported, in a rare outburst of public dissent triggered by worsening blackouts that have been exacerbated by a U.S. oil blockade.
A rally against power cuts and food shortages appeared to begin peacefully in the city of Moron late on Friday then turned violent in the early hours of Saturday morning, Invasor newspaper said.
Videos on social media showed a large fire and people throwing rocks through the windows of a building as voices shouted &#8220;liberty&#8221; in the background.
Reuters was unable to confirm the authenticity of videos that posters said showed the unrest in Moron, a city on Cuba&#8217;s northern coast about 250 miles (400 km) east of the capital Havana near the tourist resort of Cayo Coco.
US BLOCKADE TURNS THE SCREW
The ​United States has tightened the screws on Cuba this year since capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro &#8211; Cuba&#8217;s most important foreign benefactor &#8211; in January.
U.S. President Trump cut off Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba and threatened to slap tariffs on any country that sells oil to Cuba, piling pressure on the economy already struggling with shortages of food, fuel, electricity and medicine.
Trump has in recent weeks made a series of statements, saying Cuba was on the verge of collapse or eager to make a deal with the United States. Cuba&#8217;s government said on Friday it had begun talks with Washington to try to defuse the crisis.
Public protests, particularly violent ones, are exceedingly rare in Cuba. Cuba&#8217;s 2019 constitution grants citizens the right to demonstrate, but a law more specifically defining that right is stalled in the legislature, leaving those who take to the street in legal limbo.
&#8220;What initially began peacefully, and after an exchange with local authorities, turned into acts of vandalism against the headquarters of the Municipal Party Committee,&#8221; the Invasor newspaper said.
&#8220;A smaller group of people stoned the entrance of the building and started a fire in the street with furniture from the reception area,&#8221; it added.
Vandals targeted several other state-run establishments in the area, including a pharmacy and a government market, the report said.
In one unverified video on social media, a gunshot is heard, and the camera pans to a person lying on the ground. State media outlet Vanguardia de Cuba dismissed online reports that the person lying on the ground had been shot by police.
&#8220;The image circulating shows the scene of the protest, but it&#8217;s important for the public to know the truth: no one was injured by gunfire,&#8221; Vanguardia de Cuba said on X.
&#8220;Media manipulation seeks to sow fear and confusion among our people. Let&#8217;s not fall for provocations,&#8221; it added.
Police detained five people and one drunken participant fell over and was being treated for injuries in a local hospital.
Over the past week, several small groups of residents across Havana have banged pots in protest against extended blackouts.
Students on Monday staged a sit-in on the steps of the University of Havana after the government suspended in-person classes, blaming the U.S. oil blockade. Fuel shortages have vastly reduced public transportation, making it difficult, if not impossible, for teachers and students to get together for classes.
Moron was also the site of significant protests during anti-government riots on July 11, 2021, the largest since Fidel Castro&#8217;s 1959 revolution.
(Reporting by Dave Sherwood; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

Anti-Government Riot Breaks Out In Cuba Over Blackouts

The following is an edited transcript excerpt from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1926-kristi-noem-is-officially-out-at-dhs?elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">The Michael Knowles Show</a>.
* * *
Are we about to take Cuba? President Trump keeps talking about it.
The first time, you might say, well, it&#8217;s a joke. The second time, maybe it&#8217;s still a joke.
The thing about jokes, though, is they often have an element of truth to them. 
First, on Monday, when asked about the communist nation 90 miles off the Florida coast, he said this:
<blockquote>The Cuban government is talking with us. They&#8217;re in a big deal of trouble, as you know. They have no money. They have no anything right now. But they&#8217;re talking with us, and maybe we&#8217;ll have a friendly takeover &#8230; We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Trump: &#8220;Maybe we&#8217;ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba. We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/YCI8WcxzBG">pic.twitter.com/YCI8WcxzBG</a>
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) <a href="https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/2028259238464659778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2026</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Source: @unusual_whales/FoxNews/X.com
This was the line he made a few days ago: maybe we&#8217;ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba. 
Then yesterday, Thursday, he brings up Cuba again. 
<blockquote>All of a sudden you see—where&#8217;s Marco? He&#8217;s not around anymore. I don’t see him, he&#8217;s doing some job. Next one is going to be… we want to do that special Cuba, he&#8217;s waiting. He says let&#8217;s get this one finished first. We could do them all at the same time, but bad things happen if you watch countries over the years. If you do them all too fast, bad things happen. We&#8217;re not going to let anything bad happen to this country.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Trump announces Cuba is the US’ next target.
Follow: <a href="https://twitter.com/AFpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AFpost</a>
<a href="https://t.co/GLHIHKv5fB">pic.twitter.com/GLHIHKv5fB</a>
— AF Post (@AFpost) <a href="https://twitter.com/AFpost/status/2029705954074210715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2026</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Trump says, “Look—we&#8217;re not going to do it right away. But maybe Marco is going to head on down.”
Marco Rubio, who&#8217;s wanted to topple the communist regime in Cuba for his entire life.
Are we going to do it?
I think Trump is serious about taking Cuba. I think it makes sense to take Cuba.
And let me remind you that this is something that basically everybody agreed on until recently. 
Trump&#8217;s most vocal critic who used to be on the Right and now is on the Left — Bill Kristol — worked in a Republican White House, was a major thought leader on the Right who then he became a Biden guy and a Kamala guy — even Bill Kristol, who hates Donald Trump with the fire of a thousand suns, said some years ago that we should take Cuba.
We have already taken Cuba on multiple occasions. We&#8217;ve controlled Cuba three or four times over the last hundred years. This is not that weird. It&#8217;s 90 miles off the coast of Florida. The regime is starving right now. They don&#8217;t have oil. They don&#8217;t have leadership. Virtually no one can even name the president of Cuba.
I can, because I&#8217;m particularly interested in the tobacco industry — and also it&#8217;s a nice place, Cuba. But can you name the leader of Cuba? No. 
His name is Miguel Díaz-Canel.
We remember the Castros. Fidel Castro ruled for decades and then his brother Raúl took over. But the Castros are now gone.
After Trump took over Venezuela, Cuba has really been on the brink of collapse. So there does seem to be a method to this. And after Iran — maybe check in five or six weeks — maybe Cuba&#8217;s next.
Not so bad.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1926-kristi-noem-is-officially-out-at-dhs?elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-large wp-image-1054531" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/MK-watch-now-1-1024x171.jpg" alt="DailyWire+" width="1024" height="171" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/MK-watch-now-1-1024x171.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/MK-watch-now-1-300x50.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/MK-watch-now-1-768x128.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/MK-watch-now-1-1536x256.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/MK-watch-now-1.jpg 1800w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>

President Trump Participates In A Saving College Sports Roundtable In The East Room

President Trump Teases Taking Cuba

Michael Knowles

Opinion

President Donald Trump told CNN host Dana Bash on Friday that Cuba&#8217;s communist government is on the brink of collapse, adding that he would soon send Secretary of State Marco Rubio to handle the situation in the Caribbean island nation.
Bash <a href="https://x.com/DanaBashCNN/status/2029926445431079095">reported</a> that she spoke with Trump on multiple issues across the globe, including the war with Iran and the situation bubbling over in Cuba. Trump told Bash, &#8220;Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon,&#8221; adding that the United States has &#8220;plenty of time, but Cuba is ready.&#8221; Bash also said that Trump told her he would soon &#8220;put Marco over there.&#8221;
Rubio, whom Trump has called the &#8220;greatest secretary of State in U.S. history,&#8221; is the son of Cuban parents who immigrated to the United States just before Fidel Castro seized power. Throughout his political career, Rubio has hoped for the Cuban people to free themselves from communist rule. Now, Rubio has a chance to help turn that hope into reality as he will likely play the most important role in U.S. efforts to stabilize Cuba.
The communist Cuban regime is in the middle of a major economic collapse, with inflation rising out of control and the country&#8217;s infrastructure continuing to fall apart. The economic situation in Cuba deteriorated further after the United States successfully captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and took control of Venezuela&#8217;s oil exports. After Trump&#8217;s action, the Venezuelan government stopped shipping oil to Cuba, and the U.S. military has been intercepting ships from other nations attempting to offload fuel in Cuba, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/americas/cuba-oil-blockade-trump.html">reported</a>. The Cuban government is believed to have just a few weeks of fuel supply left before the country goes into a blackout.
A United Nations official in Cuba <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/02/1167046">said</a> last week that the situation in the country is &#8220;becoming fragile,&#8221; with food security also &#8220;deteriorating.&#8221;
As Trump rewrites the rules of America&#8217;s foreign policy strategy, he has set his sights on Cuba, but a major military operation targeting the country appears unlikely at the moment. Instead, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-suggests-friendly-takeover-of-cuba-after-boat-incident?author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Suggests+%E2%80%98Friendly+Takeover+Of+Cuba%E2%80%99+After+Boat+Incident">suggested</a> a &#8220;friendly takeover&#8221; of the country last week.
&#8220;The Cuban government is talking with us. They’re in a big deal of trouble, as you know. They have no money, no anything right now,” Trump said. “Maybe we’ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba. We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba.”
As the crisis in Cuba worsens, the Cuban government <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deadly-gun-battle-off-cubas-coast-florida-registered-boat-at-center-of-clash?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Deadly+Gun+Battle+Off+Cuba%E2%80%99s+Coast+%E2%80%94+Florida-Registered+Boat+At+Center+Of+Clash">said</a> that its troops shot and killed multiple people on a speedboat from Florida that it accused of opening fire on Cuban soldiers just off the country&#8217;s coast. At least five people aboard the speedboat were killed, and Cuba charged the five surviving crew members with terrorism. Rubio said that the incident was not a U.S.-backed operation.
For decades, Cuba remained a thorn in America&#8217;s side as the island nation, just 100 miles off the Florida coast, was closely allied with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The 13-day Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 is still considered the closest the world has ever come to full-scale nuclear war, and the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion on the southwestern coast of Cuba remains one of the biggest U.S. military failures in history.

Donald Trump/Marco Rubio

Trump Predicts Another Dictatorship Could Fall Soon — Suggests Sending Marco Rubio

President Donald Trump floated the United States taking control of Cuba after the communist country’s Coast Guard killed four individuals on a boat registered in the state of Florida on Wednesday.
&#8220;The Cuban government is talking with us, and they&#8217;re in a big deal of trouble, as you know. They have no money, they have no anything right now, but they’re talking with us, and maybe we&#8217;ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba,” the president told reporters Friday, adding that the island nation is in “big trouble.”
“You know, we have people living here that want to go back to Cuba, and they’re very happy with what’s going on,” he continued.
The boat had Americans on board, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/26/us-americans-cuba-boat-shooting-rubio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a>. The Cuban government claims that the “violating speedboat” was in “territorial waters.”
“When a surface unit of the Border Guard Troops of the Ministry of the Interior, carrying five service members, approached the vessel for identification, the crew of the violating speedboat opened fire on the Cuban personnel, resulting in the injury of the commander of the Cuban vessel,” the Ministry of the Interior stated.
“In the face of current challenges, Cuba reaffirms its determination to protect its territorial waters, based on the principle that national defense is a fundamental pillar of the Cuban State in safeguarding its sovereignty and ensuring stability in the region,” the statement added, noting that there will be investigations into the incident.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez posted to X on Thursday that the country “does not attack, nor threaten.”
“We have stated this on repeated occasions and we reaffirm it today: Cuba will defend itself with determination and firmness against any terrorist and mercenary aggression that seeks to affect its sovereignty and national stability,” he added.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this week that the U.S. has “every reason to want our own information.”
“We don’t make decisions in the United States on the basis of what the Cuban authorities are saying,” he added.
The recent incident and the comments from the president come as the country, which is just 90 miles south of Florida, is facing an ongoing energy crisis, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-26/trump-looks-to-leverage-cuba-s-energy-crisis-to-gain-influence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bloomberg</a> reported.
The Trump administration has not wavered in flexing the American military’s muscle in the Western Hemisphere, most recently with the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in January to face narco-terrorism charges in the United States.

Menu