US EditionTrump administration said to tell Cuba its president has to go, NYT reports
U.S. negotiators demand President Díaz-Canel’s exit to advance talks amid Cuba’s worsening energy crisis and protests, with economic pressure blocking fuel shipments for three months.
- On Monday, the Trump administration reportedly demanded that Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel step down as a condition for reaching a deal, according to four sources who spoke to the New York Times.
- Washington has relied on an "energy blockade" to deepen Havana's energy crisis, causing daily power outages exceeding 20 hours combined with food shortages and transportation failures.
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reportedly negotiating with Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, the grandson of Raúl Castro, who sources say would retain influence behind the scenes if a transition occurs.
- President Donald Trump, citing a "friendly takeover of Cuba," compared the potential removal to his claimed capture of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, where a US-backed operation gave Washington leverage.
- Critics argue that removing Díaz-Canel may prove cosmetic unless accompanied by broader changes to Communist Party leadership, since the military conglomerate GAESA reportedly controls the island's actual power structure.
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A new chapter of tension between the United States and Cuba is opening up after a presumed plan by the Donald Trump administration to force the departure of the Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, in the midst of discreet negotiations between the two countries. According to The New York Times, citing four people familiar with the talks, U.S. officials would have suggested to their Cuban peers that the current president should leave power. The va…
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U.S. officials have told Cuban negotiators that President Miguel Díaz-Canel must step aside if Washington and Havana are going to reach a broader agreement. The demand places Cuba’s current president directly at the center of negotiations. The position, reported by The New York Times, reflects a strategy focused on removing the island’s head of state without dismantling the Communist system that has governed Cuba for more than six decades. Peopl…
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