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Donald Trump posted this Sunday on his Truth Social account an image generated by artificial intelligence depicting a U.S. military drone destroying ships bearing Iranian flags amid massive explosions, accompanied by a single word written in dark red: "Goodbye" —in Spanish and without an accent—.
The choice of language is the element that raises the question: why in Spanish? The switch to Spanish on May 24 does not seem accidental. Does the leader suggest that Cuba will be his next target?
The link between Iran and Cuba is the thread that gives meaning to the message.
On May 17, Axios published an intelligence report stating that Cuba has allegedly acquired over 300 military drones from Russia and Iran since 2023, and that Cuban officials have discussed potential uses for these drones against the Guantanamo Naval Base, U.S. military vessels, and even Key West, Florida.
The Republican Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar described the capabilities of Cuban drones as a "direct threat" to the national security of the United States.
The Cuban Deputy Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío responded that "Cuba has the right to defend itself," without confirming or denying the purchase. The Kremlin, for its part, described the report as "fiction."
Three days after the report, on May 20, Trump warned that the U.S. would "not tolerate" Cuba being a "rogue state" harboring military, intelligence, and hostile foreign terrorist operations just 90 miles from U.S. territory.
Miguel Díaz-Canel had responded days earlier that "Cuba does not threaten; Cuba is constantly threatened," while the Communist Party issued its own message: "there will be no surrender in Cuba."
This Sunday’s post comes at the peak of a sustained escalation.
Since January 2026, the Trump administration has imposed more than 240 new sanctions against Cuba, including direct sanctions against GAESA, the military conglomerate that controls a large portion of the island's economy.
The CIA director visited Havana on May 15 carrying a message from Trump, and Havana confirmed that there were talks.
There is a possible second interpretation: the U.S. and Iran were engaged in active nuclear negotiations in May, mediated by Oman, and the "Goodbye" could also be a pressure tactic on Tehran, using Cuba as a regional threat variable in the negotiation strategy.
The image of a drone with the American flag destroying Iranian boats, accompanied by a farewell in the language of Tehran's main Latin American ally, can be interpreted as a simultaneous warning: to Iran, in the language of Cuba; or to Cuba, in the language that Havana cannot ignore. Trump did not clarify anything. He simply wrote "Goodbye."
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