Mauricio Claver-Caronethe special envoy of the United States for Latin America, said that the Trump administration can “be very creative” in its measures against the Cuban government.
Claver-Carone is convinced that the island’s government “is probably weaker than ever before”, and that although it has always been said, “this time it really is,” he said in An interview with Political.
Born in Miami and Cuban origin, Claver-Carone is known for his last position towards the island and for defending sanctions against the authorities of Havana.
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As for the changes he expects, he told the journalist Ben Schreckinger that they must be a “democratic change.”
“The Cuban model is obviously dead. No country in the region is heard saying: ‘I want to be like Cuba,’ ”he said.
Shortly before assuming his second term, Trump He appointed Claver-Carone, former president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in charge of the State Department for Latin America.
During Trump’s first mandate (2017-2021), Claver-Carone assumed the leadership in the IDB in October 2020, but was dismissed in the middle of a sound scandal for having a romance with a subordinate and granting several salary increases, he remembers An office of the agency EFE.
