The Cuban-American senator believes that “this is the most promising moment in our lives to see the fall of the communist regime in Cuba.”
MIAMI, United States. – Cuban-American Senator Ted Cruz (Republican of Texas), during a television interview, presented the Cuban exile as a key actor in an eventual scenario of transition and economic reconstruction of the country.
Cruz linked this possibility with the return of the private sector and described a horizon of prosperity tied to the departure from power of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC). “If the communist regime falls in Cuba, you will see many Cuban-Americans with many resources willing to invest, to go and turn that country around,” he said.
Likewise, he maintained that Cuba “could be an island paradise if the communists were out of power and the free market was allowed to return.”
Sharing the fragment of the interview on his social networks, Cruz added: “This is the most promising moment in our lives to see the fall of the communist regime in Cuba. I hope so.”
The senator framed this forecast within a regional reading in which he equated Venezuela’s economic deterioration with the Cuban experience under Castroism. “Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, two communists, came and completely destroyed the economy. It is the same thing that the Castros did in Cuba,” he said.
Along those lines, he added: “I think this is the most promising moment in our lives to see the communist regime fall,” before returning to the point of the exile’s role as a potential investor.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, affirmed this Thursday that the Cuban government “is hanging by a thread” and that it is going through “big problems,” while maintaining that the pressure on Havana is already maximum “unless the hell that is the place is entered and bombed,” in an interview with journalist and host Hugh Hewitt.
Trump made those comments when Hewitt asked him if it was time to “increase the pressure” on “that police dictatorship” and even raised the possibility of “quarantining” it as Washington had done with Venezuela. The president responded that he saw no room to tighten the policy much more without escalating to direct military action: “I don’t think there can be much more pressure than going in and bombing the hell that is the place,” he said.
Then, when faced with a direct question from Hewitt about whether Miguel Diaz-Canel could “fall” as, in a hypothetical scenario, Iranian leader Ali Khamenei could, Trump responded affirmatively and expanded his diagnosis of the fragility of the regime. “Yes. I think Cuba is hanging by a thread. Cuba is in big trouble,” he declared.
The president qualified his prediction about an eventual collapse of the regime and acknowledged that these types of predictions have been repeated for decades. “I think Cuba is really in a lot of trouble. But, you know, people have been saying that for many years, to be fair, about Cuba,” he said. Then he added: “Cuba has been in trouble for the last 45 years and (…) it is not done falling. But I think it is pretty close of its own accord.”
