The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said after the military operation that deposed Nicolás Maduro from power in Venezuela that, if “I were in Havana, I would be worried even a little.”
For his part, President Donald Trump said that the island is a “very similar case” to Venezuela. “Cuba is something we will end up talking about,” he said.
During the press conference in which Trump detailed the “Absolute Resolve” operation, which captured Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, tonight in Caracas, that this operation is a blow to Cuban intelligence and security, which “basically, had colonized Venezuela from a security point of view.”
“We have won the game. All those guards who help protect Maduro, it is something known; even the (Venezuelan) spy agency was full of Cubans,” said Rubio, who added that Venezuela “must declare its independence from Cuba.”
Trump said from Mar-a-Lago, accompanied among others by Rubio, that the Cuban government “is not good for Cuba. Those people have suffered for many, many years and I think we will end up talking about Cuba because it is a failed nation and we want to help those people.”
“It is a very similar case in the sense that we want to help the people of Cuba and the people who were forced to leave Cuba and now live in our country,” clarified Trump, who reiterated that “we want to surround ourselves with good neighbors and stability.”
Rubio also stated that the embargo on Venezuelan oil remains and that, therefore, they will block the shipment of fuel to Cuba.
