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Trump Aims at End of Cuba Communist Rule
(MENAFN) The Trump administration, emboldened by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's ouster, is actively seeking allies within Cuba's government willing to facilitate negotiations ending Communist rule before year-end, media reported, citing sources.
US officials assess Cuba's economy is approaching total collapse and the government faces unprecedented vulnerability after losing crucial Venezuelan backing, the report stated.
While no comprehensive strategy exists to topple the regime, officials view Maduro's capture and subsequent concessions as both blueprint and cautionary tale for Havana, the report added.
"I strongly suggest they make a deal. Before it's too late," US President Donald Trump said in a Jan. 11 social-media post, adding that "no more oil or money" would be going to Cuba.
Officials have convened with Cuban exile communities in Miami and Washington to pinpoint figures within Cuba's government potentially open to negotiations, according to the report.
The operation capturing Maduro reportedly received assistance from an insider, while a US military strike in Caracas resulted in 32 deaths among Cuban soldiers and intelligence personnel protecting him, the report noted.
Though Washington hasn't explicitly threatened military intervention against Cuba, officials indicate the Venezuelan raid was designed to demonstrate potential repercussions of resistance, the report said.
Intelligence evaluations characterize Cuba's economy as catastrophic, plagued by shortages of essential goods, medications, and electrical power. Washington intends to further destabilize the government by severing Venezuelan petroleum shipments and dismantling Cuba's international medical programs—its primary foreign currency generator.
"Cuba's rulers are incompetent Marxists who have destroyed their country, and they have had a major setback with the Maduro regime that they are responsible for propping up," a White House official said, reiterating that Cuba should "make a deal before it's too late."
The State Department declared democratic governance in Cuba serves US national interests and would deny adversarial military and intelligence operations access to the island.
Some officials suggest Trump prefers maintaining pressure while preserving negotiation opportunities rather than executing conventional regime-change tactics, the report noted.
Nevertheless, many allies anticipate Communist rule's demise while cautioning about potential chaos.
Cuba's leadership has withstood decades of US pressure.
"There is no surrender or capitulation possible nor any kind of understanding based on coercion or intimidation," Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said at a memorial honoring Cuban personnel killed while protecting Maduro.
In Havana, intensifying blackouts and fuel scarcity have rendered streets eerily silent after dark, interrupted only by residents striking pots from their residences—a wordless, anonymous expression of mounting desperation.
"You can't tell who it is. They don't yell or anything. It's just that -- banging on pots," said Rodolfo Jimenez, a retiree who has lived on the same street in Havana his entire life.
"They only do it at night. People are afraid of being snitched on."
US officials assess Cuba's economy is approaching total collapse and the government faces unprecedented vulnerability after losing crucial Venezuelan backing, the report stated.
While no comprehensive strategy exists to topple the regime, officials view Maduro's capture and subsequent concessions as both blueprint and cautionary tale for Havana, the report added.
"I strongly suggest they make a deal. Before it's too late," US President Donald Trump said in a Jan. 11 social-media post, adding that "no more oil or money" would be going to Cuba.
Officials have convened with Cuban exile communities in Miami and Washington to pinpoint figures within Cuba's government potentially open to negotiations, according to the report.
The operation capturing Maduro reportedly received assistance from an insider, while a US military strike in Caracas resulted in 32 deaths among Cuban soldiers and intelligence personnel protecting him, the report noted.
Though Washington hasn't explicitly threatened military intervention against Cuba, officials indicate the Venezuelan raid was designed to demonstrate potential repercussions of resistance, the report said.
Intelligence evaluations characterize Cuba's economy as catastrophic, plagued by shortages of essential goods, medications, and electrical power. Washington intends to further destabilize the government by severing Venezuelan petroleum shipments and dismantling Cuba's international medical programs—its primary foreign currency generator.
"Cuba's rulers are incompetent Marxists who have destroyed their country, and they have had a major setback with the Maduro regime that they are responsible for propping up," a White House official said, reiterating that Cuba should "make a deal before it's too late."
The State Department declared democratic governance in Cuba serves US national interests and would deny adversarial military and intelligence operations access to the island.
Some officials suggest Trump prefers maintaining pressure while preserving negotiation opportunities rather than executing conventional regime-change tactics, the report noted.
Nevertheless, many allies anticipate Communist rule's demise while cautioning about potential chaos.
Cuba's leadership has withstood decades of US pressure.
"There is no surrender or capitulation possible nor any kind of understanding based on coercion or intimidation," Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said at a memorial honoring Cuban personnel killed while protecting Maduro.
In Havana, intensifying blackouts and fuel scarcity have rendered streets eerily silent after dark, interrupted only by residents striking pots from their residences—a wordless, anonymous expression of mounting desperation.
"You can't tell who it is. They don't yell or anything. It's just that -- banging on pots," said Rodolfo Jimenez, a retiree who has lived on the same street in Havana his entire life.
"They only do it at night. People are afraid of being snitched on."
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