“We would like to, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to bring about change,” the US secretary of state said.
MIAMI, United States. – The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, stated this Wednesday that the President’s Administration donald trump He would “love” to see a regime change in Cuba, although he maintained that this does not imply that Washington is going to cause it.
Rubio made the statements during a Senate hearing dedicated to exposing the US Government’s plans for Venezuela, in a context of verbal escalation between Havana and Washington after the military operation on January 3 in Caracas that led to the capture of the then Venezuelan dictator. Nicolas Maduro.
Rubio told lawmakers: “We would like to, but that does not mean that we are going to cause change, although we would love to see it. There is no doubt that it would be a great benefit for the United States if Cuba were no longer governed by an autocratic regime.”
Asked if the United States plans to use military power or other forms of coercion to promote regime change on the island, Rubio responded that the US legal framework delimits the issue. In that exchange, he maintained: “The US embargo against Cuba is codified. It was codified in law and requires a regime change so that we can lift the embargo.”
En términos legales, la Ley Helms-Burton (Ley LIBERTAD) fijó en estatuto partes del régimen de sanciones y establece condiciones para suspender o terminar el embargo, vinculadas a determinaciones presidenciales sobre la existencia de un “gobierno de transición” y, posteriormente, de un “gobierno elegido democráticamente” en Cuba.Rubio’s remarks came a day after Trump would affirm that Cuba “is about to collapse” because, after the overthrow of Maduro, the Island no longer receives Venezuelan crude oil.
In parallel, Rubio presented prepared testimony about Venezuela before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in which he defended the January 3 operation and alluded to the relationship between Caracas and Havana, stating that Venezuelan energy resources had been used to prop up the Cuban regime, according to the document released by the committee itself.
