What IS the Trump-Rubio plan for Cuba?

 Some comments on that......

  Miami-born Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump surely have dire and massive plans for Cuba...at least as soon as they get more of a grip on the sticky Iran problem. Today -- March 31st, 2026 -- I will try to provide some of my beliefs on their impending changes in Cuba.

      Both Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his boss Donald Trump have talked about a "friendly" regime change in Cuba. I simply don't think that will happen, although some immediate changes probably will financially help the everyday Cubans in Cuba.

      This past Sunday night on Air Force One President Trump told journalists that he would allow this Russian Oil Tanker to dock in Cuba carrying thousands of tons of oil. It sounded like a surprise and "friendly" statement from the Rubio-Trump administration towards the Cuban people, but that is in dire contrast to the extreme tightening of the already extreme seven-decade U. S. EMBARGO that since 1962 has already "starved, deprived, and made miserable" generations of everyday Cubans on the island to encourage them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government that overthrew the lucrative US/MAFIA-backed Batista dictatorship on January 1st in 1959. The victory by the Cuban Revolution quickly spawned Little Havana in nearby Miami that since 1959 has produced generations of Cuban-Americans such as Marco Rubio and thousands of other rich and powerful Miami Cubans who have essentially dictated the U. S. Cuban policies from 1959 till this very day as April 1st in 2026 arrives!! In the last 67 years the Cuban people in Cuba have not overthrown their revolutionary government but neither has Miami's Little Havana even with the ubiquitous help of the superpower United States!! 

    For decades the 187 nations in the United Nations, excluding the U. S. and Israel, have voted in near unanimity to beg the United States to lift its cruel economic EMBARGO/blockade against Cuba and to stop using the USA's vast influence to keep other nations from trying to help the masses of everyday Cubans in Cuba. Rarely do other nations defy Little Havana/United States dictates regarding Cuba but this week, as March turns into April in 2026, that Russian oil tanker now in Cuba and Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum are trying to get much-needed help to the Cuban people who are suffering mightily from total energy/electricity blackouts as well as drastic food, medical shortages, etc.

      Since 2018 Miguel Diaz-Canel has been Cuba's President and for many years before that he was the island's Education Minister. This week he used the word "recrudecimiento" to describe what the U. S. and Little Havana are doing to the collective masses of Cuban people on the island. The word "recrudecimiento" means "PUNISHMENT." 

      Cuba's top United States expert is the island's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Fernandez de Cossio. Normally the U. S. media only allows Little Havana Cubans in Miami to speak about U.S.-Cuban relations. But, as shown above, last Sunday NBC News gave Carlos a half-hour to speak on Cuba's behalf on NBC's legendary Meet the Press program, which is history's longest-running television program of any kind. Speaking fluent and decisive English, the highly respected Carlos used his time to make many valid points, including this one:

            The United States economic embargo/blockade against Cuba has existed since 1962. It is history's all-time longest, cruelest, and most devastating economic blockade/embargo ever imposed by a much-larger and much-stronger nation against a much-smaller and much-weaker nation. To deny that fact is a lie. And to say that the revolutionary Cuban governement and the Cubans in Cuba are solely to blame for the collective devastations on the island is an even bigger lie.

A blockaded Cuban trying to survive this week.

     Back in the 1940s and 1950s prior to the victorious Cuban Revolution, Cuba's brutal US/Mafia-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista was triumphantly paraded around Washington in a convertible. Back then Batista, the Mafia, and dozens of U. S. companies used Cuba as a veritable financial Piggy Bank at a time when Cuba was widely hailed as "The Paradise of the Tropics." 

     But in Batista's Cuba in the 1950s, the "Paradise of the Tropics" that was a PIGGY BANK for Batista, the Mafia, and the United States made one stupid mistake: IT FAILED TO TOSS A FEW CRUMBS TO THE MAJORITY PEASANTS.

       The Cuban "Paradise" for Batista, the Mafia, and the United States in the 1950s should have tossed a few crumbs to the everyday Cuban people, because dire poverty across the island spawned the anti-Batista Cuban Revolution.

     In January of 1959 the victorious Cuban Revolution drastically changed the government in Havana but just as quickly spawned Little Havana in Miami.

      What if the Cuban Revolution had not created Little Havana in nearby Miami? If Little Havana in Miami had not evolved so quickly and so powerfully and so eternally starting in 1959, what would Havana look like today? In his great book "Havana Nocturne" the great writer T. J. English asked those two questions many times.

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Will Rubio Leave a Castro in Charge of Cuba?

     As the Associated Press journalist in Cuba, Andrea Rodriguez lives among the Cuban people and reports to the United States and to the world from the island. In the last days of March of 2026, her headline shown above this weekend is: "Cuban President Says Raul Castro in Early Talks that are in early stages." The first three paragraphs of Andrea's insightful latest AP article is shown below:

     Now 94-years-old, Raul Castro and his beloved grandson Raulito have both reportedly spoken directly to top U. S. officials, even Secretary of State Marco Rubio, about the plans that Rubio and U. S. President Donald Trump have for Cuba.

    It is believed that Raul Castro's 55-year-old great-nephew Oscar Perez-Oliva Fraga is also talking directly to the U. S. about the impending changes.

      And so...on March 28th in 2026 the Assocaited Press and other top U. S. media sources are appearing to say that 94-year-old Raul Castro's 41-year-old grandson Raulito and Raul's 55-year-old nephew Oscar Perez-Oliva Fraga are talking to Secretary of State Marco Rubio or Rubio's top aides and both of them might be allowed to be apart of the next Cuban government. The inference is that Rubio will allow Raul to remain unscathed, as will be the rock-tomb that holds the ashes of his brother Fidel who died at AGE 90 in 2016, But the belief is that Rubio will insist that Cuba's President since 2018, Miguel Diaz-Canel, must go along with his top associates. But, on the island itself, unlike in Rubio's hometown of Miami, Diaz-Canel is beloved by millions of Cuban citizens...as are the two Castro brothers.

Millions of Cubans love President Diaz-Canel.

And millions of Cubans still love Fidel Castro.

     Back in the 1950s during the hated Batista dictatorship Fulgencio Batista, the United States, and the Mafia forgot that most Cubans on the island loved the rebel Castro brothers and that is why on January 1st in 1959 their victorious Cuban Revolution shocked the world -- especially Batista and the U. S. and the Mafia. If, as expected, Miami's superpower Rubio is about to finally orchestrate a regime in Cuba, he would probably be wise to deal judiciously and carefully with both 94-year-old Raul Castro and with the LEGEND that will FOREVER be attached to the name Fidel Castro.

      One thing to understand about the impending "regime change in Cuba" is this: Cubans in Miami and Cubans in Cuba have vastly different views about Fidel Castro, Fulgencio Batista, and the Cuban Revolution.

Miami-born Marco Rubio controls "the Cuban noose."

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Cuba Made Its Case on Meet the Press

 On Sunday, March 22nd-2025!!

     The most iconic news program in the United States and in the world is Meet the Press. It debuted in December in 1947 and it is the longest running news show or television program in history. And it remains a legendary NBC News feature on Sundays till this very day. Now Kristen Welker anchors Meet the Press. A rare thing in U. S. journalism occurred yesterday on Sunday, March 22, 2026. That was when Kristen Welker and Meet the Press for a half-hour allowed a top Cuban spokesman to make Cuba's case as it tries desperately to survive against the unchecked power of Miami Cubans. Normally since 1959 the U. S. media has only permitted only Miami Cubans to comment on the decades-long/rich-poor lopsided struggle between the two sides, but amazingly yesterday on the massive Meet the Press forum on NBC News Cuba got to also make its own comments for a half-hour.

   From Cuba's standpoint on Meet the Press yesterday the island's Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez De Cossio, Cuba's top U. S. expert, for a half-hour answered all of Kristen Welker's questions and he did so in fluent English and quite precisely. The entire interview is still easily obtained on the Internet if you care to study his pertinent answers.

       Tap the arrow above to see and hear Fidel Castro on Meet the Press on April 19th in 1959 soon after his Cuban Revolution had overthrown dictator Fulgencio Batista in Cuba.

       Tap the arrow above to see and hear Fidel Castro on the famed Face the Nation news half-hour program on CBS News soon after his Cuban Revolution had overthrown dictator Fulgencio Batista in Cuba on January 1, 1959. In this interview he speaks in English for a half-hour about his democratic plans for Cuba, about the U. S. support of Batista until it appeared that Castro's rebels could actually win, about how he felt about the vicious Dominican Republican dictator Trujillo that liked the U. S. but hated Cuba, etc.

    Yes, history registers the fact that Fidel Castro was the guest speaking English on both Face the Nation on CBS News and on Meet the Press on NBC News soon after his Cuban Revolution took over Cuba on January 1, 1959. It was on Sunday, April 19, 1959 that he was on Meet Press. That was a mere three months AFTER he had shocked the world by leading the Cuban Revolution over the powerful Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista who had been supported by the powerful United States and by the powerful MAFIA. Americans to this day have gotten their Cuban news mostly from Miami Cubans who, starting in January of 1959, created their rich and powerful anti-Castro haven/sanctuary in Miami known as Little Havana. Every day since January in 1959 Little Havana has tried frantically to overthrow Castro's Cuban Revolution, but seven decades later the Cuban Revolution still lives although Fidel Castro himself died at age 90 in 2016. Amazingly, a few weeks after he overthrew the Batista dictatorship in Cuba, Fidel Castro spent 12 days in the United States trying to make friends with its northern neighbor but, while being wildly welcomed by the American people, Richard Nixon and the U. S. government, of course, showed Fidel Castro that they preferred Batista because U. S. companies had made vast fortunes in Batista Cuba's. Speaking English during his half-hour on Meet the Press on April 19th, 1959, he explained that he, unlike Batista, wanted a democratic government in Cuba. That entire interview, for what it's worth in late-March in 2026, is shown above. Just tap the arrow to see and listen to it. And below the Meet the Press/NBC is the Face the Nation/CBS interview. Listen to him speak in English, in 1959, about how he felt about the U. S. Democracy for Cuba, enemies such as dictator Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, and even about the "several dozen" executions the revolution carried out in 1959 after trials demanded by the Cuban people who had lost loved ones, especially children {"ninos"}, murdered by the Batista dictatorhip.

     To this day in Havana the largest Children's Hospital in Cuba is the William Soler Children's Hospital. Little Willie Soler was one of the children the revolution said was murdered by "Batista" as a warning for the parents to not oppose Batista. But marches like this one fueled the revolution and fueled Fidel Castro's fervor. The great New York Times reporter Herbert L. Matthews told about marches like these. The woman in sunglasses and wearing the white blouse above was Little Willie Soler's mother. She and other mothers like her marched with huge signs saying exactly why they marched: "Batista is killing our children." Yes, there is two sides to the Cuban Revolution. Little Willie Soler is one of the key sides as Herbert L. Matthews of the New York Times tried to tell the American people back in the 1950s.

A great journalist, Herbert L. Matthews.

1959 Fidel Castro interviews in English are important.

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Marco Rubio is about to rule Cuba but...

 ...then a resistance could SURPRISE!! 

      For the now nationally popular News Nation channel, Brooke Shafer today, on March 21st in 2026, did a very rare thing in the U. S., which was to broadcast an honest update to the American people about the Miami-US/Havana-Cuba War.

      The News Nation report today by Brooke Shafer revealed the dire stress this generation of Cuban women and children are enduring as they try to live with the Blockade that the U. S. first imposed on their nearby island almost seven decades ago -- back in 1962. The photo/video shown above was broadcast across the U. S. today, March 21-2026, on News Nation. Today as Trump-Rubio/Miami-US have sharply tightened the Blockade, the Cuban woman shown above has no idea she will survive.

     And so, at least today on March 21st in 2026, one national news source -- Brooke Shafer on News Nation -- reported fairly on the Miami-vs. Havana War. This report even suggested that the suffering women and children in Cuba, nor even the island's revolutionary government, are not solely to blame for what has been happening to generations of Cuban families since 1959. Cuban-born Cubans such as Rafael Diaz-Balart, Mas Canosa, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, etc., started creating the rich and powerful Little Havana community in Miami in 1959 and then Little Havana mentored and groomed other generations of Miami Cuban-Americans, most notably...54-year-old Marco Rubio who is now the USA's ultra-powerful Secretary of State. Cuban-born Little Havana superpowers in Miami such as Rafael Diaz-Balart and his sons, Mas Canosa and sons, and Havana-born Ros-Lehtinen and her Miami pupils such as Marco Rubio for decades have dictated Cuban policies in the U. S., but none have had the unique and unquestioned power of...U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Now how will Marco Rubio reshape Cuba?

This Havana woman waits for an answer from Rubio.

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