As a US energy blockade continues against Cuba, the country is weakening and facing blackouts, running out of food, and seeing vital medical procedures postponed.
By the top of 2026, the US government is hoping to ‘change leadership’ of Cuba, and is in search of government insiders to ‘cut a deal’ to make it possible, reports in January said.
Now, insiders have said Donald Trump could take more ‘aggressive’ steps to dislodge the Cuban government as soon as this week.
Speaking with the Day by day Mail, a diplomat acquainted with the continuing situation in Cuba said: ‘Trump will move ASAP. The social costs, like putting the people of Cuba under duress, have develop into too high.’
The source noted that Trump is ‘obsessed’ with the war in Iran right away, but his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is hoping the President gives the okay to maneuver forward with Cuba.
On Tuesday, Trump hinted at potential motion within the Caribbean country, telling reporters: ‘We’ll be doing something with Cuba very soon.’
The federal government is already meeting with Cuban exiles in Miami and Washington, in hopes of reaching a government official in Havana who could help make a change occur.
The US tried to purchase Cuba in each the 1840s and 1850s, to no avail, before Cuba gained independence in 1902.
America also previously tried to oust Fidel Castro, Cuba’s leader within the Sixties, through the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.
While Cuba produces 40% of its petroleum and has been generating its own power, it hasn’t been capable of meet demand.
Cuba has close ties to Venezuela, having received oil and funding from the Caracas government before Maduro was ousted.
The island often has blackouts, queues at supermarkets and petrol shortages because it undergoes its worst economic crisis in a long time.
Trump previously threatened Cuba shortly after the capture of Maduro, telling them to ‘make a deal’ with the US.
William LeoGrande, a professor at American University who has tracked Cuba for years, said: ‘The Cuban government doesn’t have the hard currency to import spare parts or upgrade the plant or grid itself. It’s just an ideal storm of collapse.’
Thermoelectric plants even have been using heavy oil, whose sulphur content is corroding the equipment.
Tomas David Velazquez Felipe, a 61-year-old resident of Havana, said the relentless outages make him think that Cubans who can should just pack up and leave the island.
‘What little we’ve got to eat spoils,’ he said. ‘Our individuals are too old to maintain suffering.’
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