Tension between countries continues as Trump alternates between talking about taking over the island or diplomatic agreement
The Secretary of State of the United States, (Republican Party), stated this Wednesday (May 27, 2026) that Cuba is in “trouble” because of its communist government. The statement was made in an interview with journalists alongside the President of the USA, (Republican Party).
“Cuba is in big trouble because, unfortunately for them, it is run by a bunch of incompetent communists. If being a communist is bad, being an incompetent communist is the worst. But the country has been taken over by a company called Gaesa, which basically controls 70% of the economy. None of that company’s money goes to help the Cuban people, nothing. So let’s talk to them, let’s work on it. We want something good for the Cuban people and we hope there is a good outcome for them. There needs to be. Stay 90 miles from our coast and having a failed state 90 miles from our coast is a threat to the national security of the United States.”said Rubio.
Tension between the 2 countries has been increasing in recent days. On May 20, the US Department of Justice the former president of Cuba, Raúl Castro, of conspiracy and murder for the shooting down, in 1996, of 2 planes belonging to the “Brothers to the Rescue” group of Cuban exiles, in which 4 died. Among the dead were 3 Americans.
Furthermore, the US has been applying several and blockades of the Caribbean country, preventing the arrival of ships with oil and worsening the Cuban energy and humanitarian crisis. Trump even stated that, after the end of the war against Iran, he intended control of Cuba. Trump later toned down and the possibility of a diplomatic agreement.
On May 15, the Cuban government a note in Granma, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, stating that Cuba does not constitute a security threat to the USA and there are no reasons to include it in the list of countries that “sponsor terrorism”.
