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Trump Says Cuba Is Next, But What That Means Is Unclear

HAVANA TIMES — From the Palace of the Revolution they want to deceive us with a game of cat and mouse, but the president of the United States, Donald Trump, speaks bluntly, sometimes the truth, others not.

This Friday he said that “Cuba is next” while highlighting US military actions in Venezuela and Iran: “I built these great Armed Forces. I said, ‘You’ll never have to use them,’ but sometimes you have to use them. And Cuba is next, by the way, but pretend I didn’t say that… media, please ignore that statement. Thank you very much. Cuba is next,” Trump stated during his speech at the FII Priority Summit held in Miami.

The setting is no coincidence either, because alarms went off in Florida last week when Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossío asserted that a change of government on the island is not being discussed, that the US administration is spending millions of dollars on a total blockade by sea and air simply to keep the same dog with a different collar, and those who believed what he said logically felt betrayed.

To make things perfectly clear, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in Paris after a meeting of G-7 foreign ministers: “Cuba’s economy needs to change, and it cannot change unless its system of government changes. It’s that simple. Who is going to invest billions of dollars in a communist country governed by incompetent communists?”

What are you going to say now, Cossio, if you’re not even the waiter at the negotiating table? The identity of the interlocutors on the Cuban side has been kept hidden, but it is by no means a minor issue. From the outset, knowing who is involved in........

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