Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times,
Cuba wants help, and the United States will hold talks with the communist island nation, President Donald Trump announced in a Tuesday post on Truth Social.
He did not specify when those talks would take place.
“No Republican has ever spoken to me about Cuba, which is a failed country and only heading in one direction—down! Cuba is asking for help, and we are going to talk!!! In the meantime, I’m off to China!”Trump wrote in his post.
The president has made Cuba a focus of his second term, increasing pressure on Havana in the form of sanctions, an oil blockade, and repeated comments fromhimselfandothersin hisadministrationabout how Cuba is next after the U.S. militarycapturedformer Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, a longtime ally of Cuba, in January.
As he left for histrip to China, Trump declined providing any further information to reporters at the White House.
“Cuba is not doing well. It’s a failed nation, and we'll be talking about Cuba at the right time,”Trump said.
Asked about any planned talks with the country, a White House official said, “Within a short period of time, they will fall, and we will be there to help them out.”
Trump has imposed multiple rounds of sanctions against the Cuban regime to choke the leadership out and push it toward making a deal.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is of Cuban descent,announcedsome of those sanctions on May 7.
Source: ZeroHedge News
