Asked if Washington would want a change of government in Cuba, Rubio maintained that this position is not only a policy of the current administration.
MIAMI, United States. – The Secretary of State of the United States, the Cuban-American Marco Rubio, stated this Friday that “any American government would like to see a radical change in Cuba” and once again disqualified the island’s regime, which he called “terrorist” and “incompetent” and which he blamed for having “destroyed” the country “in its more than 65 years in power,” according to statements offered at a press conference in Washington and collected by the EFE news agency.
Asked if Washington would want a change of government in Cuba, Rubio maintained that this position “is not only a policy of this administration [del presidente Donald Trump]“I think any administration would like to see a different situation. It was a disaster. It’s a disaster. It’s not just because they are Marxists and terrorists. They are incompetent. “They are incompetent people who destroyed that country,” Rubio said.
The Secretary of State, one of the most important figures in Trump’s cabinet, is originally from Florida and the son of Cuban exiles.
The EFE cable recalls that Cuba is going through one of the worst crises in its history and that, although Havana and Washington resumed relations in 2014 after more than half a century of confrontation, Trump’s first term reversed the so-called “thaw” initiated by then-president Barack Obama.
Last July, during the commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the protests of July 11 and 12, 2021 (11J), Rubio transmitted a message to representatives of Cuban civil society who were meeting at the residence of the head of mission of the United States Embassy in Havana, Mike Hammer.
In his message, Rubio asked Cubans to be aware that they had the support of the United States. “They have our support, the support of our embassy, of a community in the United States that knows that they are suffering from the shortage of everything, medicine, electricity and so on; and that knows that all of this is the product of a regime that simply does not know how to govern a country, does not know how to manage a country and that what interests it is to stay in power,” he noted.
Concluding his message, he stated: “I want you to know that we support you, that we always have your cause at the forefront of everything we do, that we talk about you in all the places where you give us the opportunity and that we pray every day that God bless you and that Cuba will soon be free, sovereign, independent and that destiny will be in the hands of its people.”
