The sole publisher of Cubaninsider, Rich Haney, has passionately studied Cuba day and night since the 1980s and he has visited the island. He is a fiercely pro-democracy conservative Republican from Virginia and he believes the Cuban Revolution and Revolutionary Cuba say more about the United States than they say about Cuba.
As theAssociated 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 ofMarch 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 ofAndrea's insightful latestAP article is shown below:
Now 94-years-old,Raul Castro and his beloved grandsonRaulito 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-nephewOscar Perez-Oliva Fraga is also talking directly to the U. S. about the impending changes.
And so...on March 28th in 2026 theAssocaited 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 lovePresident 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 aboutFidel Castro,Fulgencio Batista, and theCuban Revolution.
The most iconic news program in the United States and in the world isMeet 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 legendaryNBC News feature on Sundays till this very day. NowKristen Welker anchorsMeet the Press. A rare thing in U. S. journalism occurred yesterday onSunday, March 22, 2026. That was whenKristen Welker andMeet 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 massiveMeet the Press forum onNBC News Cuba got to also make its own comments for a half-hour.
From Cuba's standpoint onMeet the Press yesterday the island's Deputy Foreign MinisterCarlos 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 hearFidel Castro onMeet 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 hearFidel Castro on the famedFace the Nation news half-hour program onCBS 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 thatCastro'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 thatFidel Castro was the guest speaking English on bothFace 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 onMeet Press. That was a mere three monthsAFTER he had shocked the world by leading theCuban 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 overthrowCastro's Cuban Revolution, but seven decades later theCuban Revolution still lives althoughFidel 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, showedFidel Castro that they preferred Batista because U. S. companies had made vast fortunes in Batista Cuba's. Speaking English during his half-hour onMeet the Press on April 19th, 1959,he explained thathe, 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 theFace 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.
1959Fidel Castro interviews in English are important.
For the now nationally popularNews 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.
TheNews 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/videoshown above was broadcast across the U. S. today, March 21-2026, onNews 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 onNews 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.
The largest and, arguably, the most beautiful island in the Caribbean is Cuba. Its closest neighbor and best friend is Jamaica. For decades they helped each other out.
Jamaica, for example, has long paid Cuba's highly skilled doctors to take care of the critical medical needs of the Jamaican people. This month ofMarch in 2026 Jamaica very reluntantly was persuaded to give up that cooperative alignment with Cuba.
While other nations have routinely bowed to the sanctions/embargo/blockade that the superpower United States has imposed on Cuba since 1962, Jamaica for decades has tried to help the Cuban people. But in January of 2025 Miami-born Cuban-AmericanMarco Rubio became U. S. President Donald Trump's ultra-powerful Secretary of State. All of his adult life the 54-year-oldRubio has dreamed of overthrowing Revolutionary Cuba and as U. S. Secretary of State he now certainly has been provided with that ability. Early on in 2025Rubio visited the Caribbean, including the above meeting with Jamaica's Prime MinisterAndrew Holness, Cuba's close friend. For monthsHolness resisted bowing toRubio's Cuban plans. But, as mentioned below, evenAndrew Holness in March of 2026 has finally caved in to the powerful and persuasiveMarco Rubio.
Yes, now even Jamaica has been persuaded"to cave to U. S. pressure" while Miami Cubans finally, after 67 years of dreaming, are watching their dreams come true.
On live TV today -- March 17-2026 -- this photo showsFox News coverage at the White House during a news conference featuringPresident Donald Trump,Vice President J. D. Vance, andSecretary of State Marco Rubio. This was the point thatTrump said: "We'll do something with Cuba 'very soon'"
Also todayPresident Trump said: "I will have the honor of taking Cuba but I think Cuba's seen the end." The new Cuba, many think, will resemble dictator Batista's money-crazed Cuba in the 1950's prior to the Cuban Revolution.
The way Dictator Batista richly did in the 1950s!!
Study the photo and captions shown above. Back in February of 2026 the new U. S. Secretary of StateMarco Rubio was touring nations in the Caribbean to get support to "deal" with Revolutionary Cuba for once and for all. And his"BREAKING NEWS" headline shown above is from today on March 16 in 2026: "PROTESTS AND POWER OUTAGES ACROSS CUBA." Below are headlines and articles flashing today on March 16-2026 depicting Cuba on its knees after the U. S. totally shut off its oil.
In other words, Miami-born Marco Rubio is winning.
Born 54 years ago in Miami to counter-revolutionary Cuban parents,Marco Rubio all his adult life has"dreamed" of overthrowing theCuban Revolution that overthrew the US-backed/Mafia-backedBatista dictatorship way back in 1959. Now that he is the U. S. Secretary of State,Rubio'sdream"is a GO." His only boss, President Donald Trump, has provided Miami andRubio a free hand regarding Cuba.
The above comments are byPresident Trump.
BothMarco Rubio andPresident Trump, however, don't want to destory Cuba. They appear to realize that the island's beauty, size, location, etc., can again be a burgeoningGold Mine financiallyas it was back in the 1950s during the Batista DICTATORSHIP prior to the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959.
In the 1950s prior to the Revolultion the Mafia-fueledBatista Dictatorship permitted the Batista leaders, the Mafia, and TOP U. S. COMPANIES to rake in vast fortunes that seemed to be an Endless Gold Mine...till the REVOLUTION intervened!!
The dictatorFulgencio Batista & the rebelFidel Castro.
Back in 2016 the rebel/dictatorFidel Castro died at age 90 in Havana but hisRevolution somehow still lived on for another decade.
But since January in 1959 the rich and politically powerful Cuban-Americans in nearbyLittle Havana Miami Florida have tried furiously to overthrowFidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. Now in March in 2026 their"dream" will come true now thatLittle Havana's own homegrown hero Marco Rubio is the USA's Secretary of State.
As he reshapes Cuba and permits its vast potential to flourish, IT IS HOPED thatMarco Rubio will help Cuba's regular people prosper too. Back in the 1950s prior to the Revolution, dictator Batista, the Mafia, and the U. S. businesses raked in vast fortunes in Cuba but they didn't think to toss a few crumbs to the island's regular families...like the one below:
WhenCuba gets rich again, distribute some of the wealth/loot.