Washington.- The president of the United States, donald trumpstated this Monday that it would be “a great honor” for him “take Cuba”in the midst of tensions between both countries due to the energy brake against the island.
“To take Cuba, that would be a great honor. To take Cuba, to take Cuba in some way, yes. Whether it’s liberating it or taking it. I could do whatever I wanted with it,” he said in a press appearance at the White House.
The president repeated that his Administration is holding talks with the Cuban authorities and described the island as “a failed nation. They have no money, they have no oil, they have nothing.”
“They have good land. They have beautiful landscapes. It is a beautiful island,” said the Republican, who boasted of having Cuban friends who became millionaires in the United States.
The Republican president threatened in recent weeks to take control of the island either in a “friendly” or hostile manner, and stressed that the regime in Havana “will fall very soon” because the country “is in ruins”, affected by the crude oil blockade imposed by Washington last January.
Last week, the ruler of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, confirmed that they are in dialogue with the US to “seek solutions through dialogue to the differences between both governments”, something that Trump had already advanced, but that the island had denied.
Cuba began the week with a new national blackout, the sixth in the last 18 months, as part of the deep energy crisis it has been going through since 2024, a situation that has worsened in the last three months with the oil blockade imposed by the US that is completely paralyzing the economy and triggering social unrest.
