By Douglas V. Gibbs
President Trump has been signaling that the communist dictatorship in Cuba is on its last legs. “Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon,” he told CNN host Dana Bash.
President Trump went on to explain that Cuba wants “to make a deal.” Cuba’s economy has been in a tailspin since its access to oil and money vanished when Maduro was captured and Venezuela became essentially an American ally. Cuba, as a result, has suffered from fuel shortages, power cuts and food scarcity.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has confirmed he is in discussions with President Trump, but says any potential agreement remains in the early stages. The Trump administration is preparing an economic deal with Cuba, with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (whose family escaped the communist country) in secret talks with members of the Cuban regime.
Members of the Cuban populace have launched demonstrations against the ruling communist party. Energy shortages have forced the country to rely on a mix of natural gas, solar power, and thermoelectric plants, with two of the plants recently shutting down, and a recent blackout was blamed on a broken boiler at a thermoelectric plant, which led to a complete shutdown of Cuba’s power grid.
Coincidentally, within 24 hours of the electric grid shutdown, an 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck just off the Cuban coast. While there has been no immediate reports of damage, the earthquake served as an exclamation point regarding Cuba’s woes.
For nearly seventy years the communist regime has used terror to cling to power, but communism destroyed the economy of Cuba, with the regime’s elite consuming imported goods and leaving scraps to the people. As other communist regimes fall around the world, the hopelessness of the failed ideology is also falling in Cuba. While the rest of the world seems not to care about what is going on in Cuba, President Trump recognizes the needs of the people and aims to starve the regime of the resources it has been using to terrorize its own people.
President Trump is currenlty signalling that Cuba’s brutal regime will be falling soon, and it won’t even be a fight. The way President Trump has been talking, one wonders if he thinks the island nation is destined to be the 51st State… but remember, he negotiates high, and then works it out within reason.
But… one wonders.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
