The United States Embassy in Cuba did not specify details about the issues discussed.
MIAMI, United States. – The United States Embassy in Cuba reported this Friday that its head of mission in Havana, Mike Hammerheld a meeting at the White House with the Secretary of State, the Cuban-American Marco Rubio, to inform him about “the situation” on the Island.
“Our Chief of Mission, Mike Hammer, met today with the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, in his office at the White House about the situation in Cuba and our firm support for ordinary Cubans,” the publication reads.
The United States Embassy in Cuba did not specify details about the issues discussed or possible decisions derived from the meeting.
This same Friday, statements by Rubio emerged, who stated that “the fundamental problem in Cuba is that it is run by incompetent people who do not know what an economy is like, much less one that works.”
Right next to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, the Secretary of State assured that the Cuban leaders “have chosen political control over the people” instead of “a functioning economy,” and maintained that this dynamic was maintained for “60-odd years” due to the existence of “donors,” first the Soviet Union and more recently, Venezuela, support that, as he said, “is already over.”
“So the people who have control in Cuba have a choice to make,” Rubio added, stating that they can choose “a real country with a real economy where its people can prosper” or “continue with their failed dictatorship that will lead to a systemic and social collapse.”
Rubio added that Washington “has no interest in a destabilized Cuba,” but held the Cuban authorities responsible for this possible scenario, stating that “it would be their fault, because they refuse to allow the people of Cuba to have economic or political freedom, in any case.”
The Cuban-American spoke out after Trump invited him to comment on the situation on the island, which the president himself described as a country “in bad shape” that depended on Venezuela “for oil and money.”
