MIAMI, United States. – Before his electoral victory this Tuesday against the Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, the campaign donald trump announced that, if elected president again, the Republican would have three demands for the Cuban regime.
As Jaime Florez, Communications Director of the Trump campaign, told the journalist in mid-July Mario J. Pentonof Martí News, The Republican would ask the leadership of the Cuban Government to release the political prisoners, in the first instance.
“All political prisoners must be released immediately without any type of reluctance or condition,” Florez told Pentón, within the framework of the Republican National Convention, in Milwaukee.
The candidate’s spokesperson referred, secondly, to a call for free elections, with the participation of different political parties and with international observation.
Third, he added that Trump would demand that the regime stop “continuing to export its failed revolution to other Latin American countries.”
To the extent that these measures are met, he noted, relations between Cuba and the United States will be normalized.
Florez, spokesperson for the candidate, said that the issue of the embargo is also a total fallacy, since Cuba exports numerous products to the United States. “This story of the ‘blockade’ has to end,” he stressed.
In March of this year, the former US president already had pointed out that the leadership in Cuba could “be changed” if he was re-elected in November.
“I want to express my admiration and support for all the brave people of Cuba, who rise up against the vile communist regime,” Trump said in a video on his social network. Social Truth. “It is not easy and we appreciate it and it will change.”
“Under the brutal and corrupt dictators of Cuba“The Cuban people suffer terrible food shortages, power outages, poverty, political repression and religious persecution,” he added.
He also acknowledged that the country faces a lack of food, fuel and medicine. trump He said that he and his allies were closely monitoring the situation in Cuba and fully supporting the Cuban people.
Likewise, he asked the Cuban regime to hold “free and fair” elections.
