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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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