The Cuban singer Aymée Nuviola stated in an interview with Tania Costa for CiberCuba that Donald Trump will take decisive action against the Cuban regime before leaving the White House. "I truly believe, beyond anything else, that this president we have now is not going to leave the White House without making a significant move," said the artist, a Grammy and several Latin Grammy winner.
Nuviola was emphatic in clarifying that she does not speak from a position of expertise. "I am not a prophet, I am not a specialized politician, but that is my opinion. Donald Trump is not going to leave without making a big impact."
The statement comes at a time when the Trump administration has intensified pressure on Cuba, with more than two dozen executive actions, sanctions against at least 40 entities and 38 individuals, and an executive order that introduces secondary sanctions against third parties doing business with blocked Cuban entities.
The interviewer Tania Costa recalled that last May, Nuviola had already stated that Raúl Castro "needs to be removed by force", and noted that the elderly leader —nicknamed "el moriviví" by Aymée Nuviola— reappeared a few days ago at a public event in response to rumors surrounding his health, which suggested he was between life and death.
The artist reaffirmed her stance but added a dimension that goes beyond the physical. "The issue is that when I talk about forcing it out, I'm also referring to ideas because a man can die, but ideas don't just die like that."
As an example, he invoked the death of Fidel Castro. "Fidel died, and the ideas remained, and someone else came to continue them poorly." For Nuviola, the real challenge is the renewal of thought, and he illustrated this with a biblical metaphor: "You cannot put new wine into old wineskins. If you pour a new drink into an old container that has a bad smell, which has a residue, it will contaminate the new you pour in there, no matter how new it is."
The singer also denounced the systematic manipulation that the regime exerts over Cuban artists, both inside and outside the island. She recalled that figures like Celia Cruz were censored in Cuba for decades, and warned that today the mechanism operates differently. She cited information indicating letters allegedly signed by artists that stigmatize them before their own audience.
"Now we're out here and people decide not to go see an artist because someone said they signed a letter that was meant to kill, I don’t know how many people. So in the end, we are victims of the same thing," she pointed out.
Nuviola questioned the reasoning behind those accusations. "Why did a well-known artist sign the letter and not someone unknown? Don't you think that's a way to manipulate those artists who, if they decide to stay outside of Cuba, will already carry the stigma they've imposed?"
His most compelling argument pointed directly to the nature of the regime. "The reality is that Fidel or anyone in the government didn't need any artist to sign any letter to execute anyone, because they have been executing people their whole lives without counting on anyone."
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