🇺🇸🇨🇺 Trump's next target might be 90 miles from Florida.
The same administration that used the military to remove Maduro in January is now turning up the heat on Havana, and the question isn't whether Trump wants regime change in Cuba. He does. The question is whether Cuba is actually Venezuela 2.0.
Probably not, and here's why.
Venezuela had a popular opposition leader the world recognized, a military that fractured under pressure, and oil that American companies were lining up to produce the moment Maduro was gone.
Cuba has none of that. No opposition figure, no natural resources worth the trouble, and a security apparatus that has spent decades systematically eliminating every alternative power source on the island.
The CIA director just made a rare visit to Havana and met with Raúl Castro's grandson, fueling talk he might work with Washington. But the younger Castro has no formal government role and showed up at a rally protesting his grandfather's indictment days later.
Cuba's military is also more
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The same administration that used the military to remove Maduro in January is now turning up the heat on Havana, and the question isn't whether Trump wants regime change in Cuba. He does. The question is whether Cuba is actually Venezuela 2.0.
Probably not, and here's why.
Venezuela had a popular opposition leader the world recognized, a military that fractured under pressure, and oil that American companies were lining up to produce the moment Maduro was gone.
Cuba has none of that. No opposition figure, no natural resources worth the trouble, and a security apparatus that has spent decades systematically eliminating every alternative power source on the island.
The CIA director just made a rare visit to Havana and met with Raúl Castro's grandson, fueling talk he might work with Washington. But the younger Castro has no formal government role and showed up at a rally protesting his grandfather's indictment days later.
Cuba's military is also more
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