The president of the United States, Donald Trump, stated this Monday from the Oval Room at the White House that it will be “a great honor” for him to “take Cuba”, in the midst of the energy blockade against the island. “Actually, I think it would be a great honor,” Trump insisted when asked by a journalist about whether the island will follow in the footsteps of Iran and Venezuela.
Trump’s statements have been the most forceful about his plans towards the island. Until now, he had limited himself to saying that Cuba would fall under its own weight, while encouraging progress in economic reforms.
“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. The president repeated that his Administration is holding talks with the Cuban authorities and described the island as “a failed nation,” because “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.
Trump’s escalation coincides with a total blackout in Cuba, which has been left without electricity after “the total disconnection” of its generation system, according to the state company.
Cubans were also hoping tonight that the Cuban Government would officially announce the strategy on which it seems to be betting to deal with . The country that for years has set limits with its diaspora, will now be open to Cuban residents abroad being able to return and invest in the private sector and own businesses, one of the economic reforms that they will promote in the middle of .
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