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The Republican senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, stated that the fall of the Cuban regime might be closer than many imagine, amid the new verbal and political escalation from Washington against Havana following the recent events in Venezuela.
"After listening to President Trump and Secretary Rubio about the Cuban regime, I believe that the liberation of Cuba from communist dictators, narcoterrorists, and anti-American forces is close," Graham wrote on his X account, where he also praised the foreign policy team formed by Donald Trump and Marco Rubio.
The message concluded with two slogans: "Free Cuba" and "Long live the Monroe Doctrine!"
The senator's words come after President Donald Trump publicly described Cuba as "a failed nation" and a "failed state," asserting that it is a topic that the United States "will end up discussing."
During a press conference from Mar-a-Lago, where the president discussed details of the operation that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, Trump stated that the system imposed on the Island "has not been very good for Cuba" and acknowledged that the Cuban people "have suffered for many years," while also mentioning that Washington wants to help both those living on the Island and those who were forced to emigrate.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, was even more direct. “Cuba is a disaster. They have no economy; it is in total collapse.”, he stated before the press, emphasizing that the president's statements should be taken “very seriously.”
Rubio also linked the Cuban government to the sustaining of Maduro's regime, stating that a significant portion of the security forces and intelligence apparatus protecting the Chavista leader consisted of Cubans.
Later, in an interview with The New York Post, Trump claimed that Cubans died during the U.S. military operation that resulted in Maduro's capture in Venezuela.
Although he didn't provide figures or details, the leader stated that these Cubans were "protecting Maduro" and that this "was not a good decision," rekindling fear and outrage over the deployment of Cuban personnel to high-risk international missions, often without information or transparency.
Rubio, for his part, issued a warning that did not go unnoticed in Havana: “If I were in the Cuban government, I would be worried at least a little,” he said, referring to the new regional scenario following the decline of chavismo.
Trump went further by dismissing direct military intervention in Cuba, but declared that "Cuba will fall on its own," because "things are going very badly for them."
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