Rubio rejects claims US wants Cuba president removed
Rubio calls report false as tension with Cuba keeps rising
Marco Rubio – (Web Desk) – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday rejected a report that the United States asked Cuba to remove its president, Miguel Díaz-Canel.
He shared a late-night post on X and called the report by The New York Times fake. He said such stories depend on people who are not trustworthy.
The report had claimed that officials under Donald Trump wanted Cuba to replace its president. But it also said they were not trying to remove the whole government.
Rubio did not clearly explain if he was denying all parts of the report or only some of it.
According to the report, US officials see Díaz-Canel as a strong leader who is not likely to bring change. Still, they have not given any direct demand for his removal.
Rubio, who has Cuban roots, has long spoken against Cuba’s communist system that started under Fidel Castro in 1959.
He also said Cuba needs to take bigger steps to improve its situation. This came just after the country faced a major power outage.
At the same time, the Trump administration has increased pressure on Cuba during its economic crisis. Cutting oil supply from Venezuela has made the situation more difficult for the island.
Trump has said that he is interested in an unspecified “deal” with Cuba but also has boasted that he can take over the country, saying that it is weak.
In Venezuela and now in Iran, which he attacked with Israel on February 28, Trump has pursued a strategy not of seeking to overthrow governments but of forcing compliance.
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Trump has voiced happiness with Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodriguez, who was Maduro’s vice president, after threatening her with violence if she does not meet his demands, including preferential treatment for US oil companies.
Unlike Venezuela and Iran, Cuba does not have oil wealth, but it carries importance in domestic US politics.
Cuban-American lawmakers, mostly part of Trump’s Republican Party, have long pushed for pressure on Havana.
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