The Cuban writer and editor Pablo de Cuba Soria stated in an interview with Tania Costa that the only solution he sees for Cuba is "a complete military takeover by the United States Armed Forces."
The statement emerged during a debate about the transition prospects on the island, within the context of a conversation focused on the new Cuban Housing Law project, published by the National Assembly of People's Power.
"I see no other solution than a complete military takeover by the United States Army in Cuba. I see no other solution," said the poet and essayist born in Santiago de Cuba in 1980 and founder of the independent publishing house Casa Vacía.
Pablo de Cuba argued that the regime has "intensified its rhetorical control efforts," something that, in his view, is confirmed by the housing law itself. He pointed out that, unlike Venezuela—where "certain steps" have indeed been taken that please the current U.S. administration—Cuba "is evidently not willing to take the necessary steps" for a negotiated change.
"In Cuba, they are evidently not willing to take the necessary steps. So I don't see any other solution," he insisted.
The writer described Cuba as "a country literally ruined in every sense," both materially and culturally and mentally, and supported his position with a historical argument.
For Pablo from Cuba, the 1910s and 1920s—ranging from the establishment of the Platt Amendment to the American stock market crash of 1929—were the peak years of flourishing for Cuban society, precisely during the time of American protectorate. "The even ruined Cuba that we still see today is the Cuba of the first two decades, exactly from when the Platt Amendment and the American protectorate were still largely in place in Cuba," he stated.
The writer compared that era to Haussmann's Paris: the infrastructure that can still be seen on the island—even in ruins—is a legacy of that period, not of the Revolution.
Her statements come at a time of increasing debate over a potential U.S. military intervention. An independent survey released on May 8 indicated that 60.9% of Cubans on the island support direct U.S. intervention, with 42,263 valid responses.
A separate survey by Bendixen & Amandi International, conducted in April 2026 among 800 people in South Florida, revealed that 79% of Cubans and Cuban Americans support intervention.
Reports from Politico and Axios, cited by Cuban media, indicate that Southern Command and the Pentagon have conducted planning exercises for possible scenarios in Cuba.
In that context, the U.S. Senate blocked, by a vote of 51 to 47, a resolution that would have restricted military actions against Cuba without congressional authorization, while a group of 32 Democratic legislators called for a change in policy toward Cuba and warned about the risk of intervention.
Pablo from Cuba also harshly criticized the housing bill, which has approximately 190 articles and expands the government's powers to intervene and seize properties from individuals.
He described it as "more totalitarian state control over the same ruin that the State itself, that the same dictatorship produced," and summarized the regime's paradox with a phrase: "In Cuba, the totalitarian State has nothing to build, but it does have the means to legislate against property all the time."
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