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The Republican congressman Carlos A. Giménez, representative from Florida, sparked a new controversy by posting this Sunday on X (formerly Twitter) a message directed at the Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel with an overtly threatening tone:
"The puppet dictator of Cuba is next," said the Cuban-American politician from Florida, raising the tone of his warning messages to the Cuban regime, a target of the Trump administration's communications in recent days.
The text was accompanied by an edited image in which Díaz-Canel appears handcuffed and wearing an outfit similar to that in the photographs circulated after the capture of Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, during the operation by U.S. special forces on January 4th.
The shared image and Giménez's words explicitly suggest that the Cuban dictator could meet the same fate as his Venezuelan counterpart.
The congressman's message is set against the backdrop of increasing tension between Washington and Havana following the U.S. attack on Venezuela and President Donald Trump's subsequent warnings to the Cuban regime.
Recently, Trump stated that "there will no longer be a drop of oil or a dollar from Venezuela flowing to Cuba," and urged the Havana government to "make a deal before it's too late," statements that were met with a stern response from Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.
Giménez's post, shared by hundreds of users within hours, reinforces the "hardline" rhetoric of the most radical sector of the Republican party, which sees the Cuban regime as directly responsible for the Venezuelan security and repression apparatus, as well as the "head of the snake" representing the interests of adversaries like China, Russia, and Iran in the region.
While the Cuban totalitarian regime insists that it "does not fear threats," signals from Washington, social media, and Congress itself indicate that the political and symbolic siege on Havana is tightening more and more.
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