The county Board of Commissioners urged President Donald Trump to increase pressure against the Havana dictatorship.
LIMA, Peru – Miami-Dade County in the United States voted unanimously to urge President Donald Trump to suspend all commercial and federal licenses related to Cuba “pending full audits and transparency,” Commissioner Natalie Milian reported via social media.
“We cannot allow a communist regime to take advantage of federal authorizations that harm American interests and our community,” he warns. the publication in X (formerly Twitter).
The letter, supported by the vote of the Miami-Dade Board of Commissioners, recognizes the “decisive action” of the US president to remove dictator Nicolás Maduro from power in Venezuela and the efforts to dismantle his drug trafficking cartel.
“Now is the time to put an end to the Cuban communist regime, a clear threat to the national security of the United States, guaranteeing that federal policy does not enable its commercial means of support,” the message underlines.
Florida Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar welcomed Natalie Milian’s decision and the position of county officials.
“Thank you, Commissioner, for your courageous leadership in supporting the Cuban exile community and refusing to allow the dictatorship to profit from their suffering,” wrote in X.
Pressures on Castroism increase
Donald Trump’s administration is weighing new tactics to push for regime change in Cuba, including imposing a total blockade on oil exports to the island, three people familiar with the plan said last Thursday, according to a report of POLITICAL. According to these sources, there has not yet been a decision made, but the measure could be part of the package of options that would be presented to the president to force the end of the Cuban communist regime.
POLITICAL points out that the proposal has been promoted by critics of the Government of Havana within the Administration and has the support of the Secretary of State, the Cuban-American Marco Rubioaccording to two of the three people consulted by the media, who spoke under anonymity because they were “sensitive” deliberations.
The plan would mark an escalation of Trump’s statement last week that the United States would curb imports of Venezuelan crude oil to Cuba, which had been the island’s main supplier.
Despite deteriorating conditions on the island—blackouts and shortages of basic goods and food—the Cuban regime has resisted U.S. sanctions and a broad embargo for decades, even after the fall of the Soviet Union.
The Cuban American legislator Carlos Giménez shared on X the report of POLITICAL and expressed his support for the eventual measure: “From the federal Congress, we support any measure that limits the flow of money and resources to the murderous dictatorship in Cuba. An oil embargo is key so that the regime cannot mobilize to repress the people.”
