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Trump understands what Washington politicians forgot: Cuba is a major threat to America

Donald Trump is the first president to treat the Castro regime as the threat to America it has always been

By Carlos Trujillo , Alberto Martinez Fox News

Published May 26, 2026 5:00am EDT

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On May 20, 1902, the Cuban flag flew for the first time over an independent country. One hundred and twenty-four years later, the Cuban people are still not free. Every president before Donald Trump either did nothing about Cuba, did too little, or did too much for the regime. Trump is the first to recognize that the regime is a threat to America itself and to resolve to confront it once and for all.

That his predecessors failed to do so is not only the Cuban people's tragedy. It is ours. Cuba's communist regime is a designated State Sponsor of Terrorism. It ran two of the most damaging espionage operations against the United States in modern memory. It was the intelligence backbone of the Maduro narco-state. It has served as a coordinating hub for the migration flows and drug routes flooding American communities. The suffering Havana exports has cost American lives.

How was it that a small island nation, run for sixty-six years........

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