With the Cuban regime gasping for air, the White Houseis reportedly preparing a lightningfast strike to topple the socialist leadership and potentially install a new ‘client state’ in Havana within the next few days.
For the last three months, the US has choked off Cuba’s oil supply, blocking tankers from Venezuela and leaving the Communist regime desperate for a lifeline only the Trump administration can now provide. Electricity shortages saw the country engulfed in a total blackout on Monday.
Now, insiders say a more aggressive step by President Donald Trump to dismantle the Caribbean’s last Communist stronghold could come as early as this week.
‘He will move ASAP. The social costs, like putting the people of Cubaunder duress, have become too high,’ a diplomat familiar with the highstakes conversations told the Daily Mail.
‘I am told Trump is obsessed withIran right now, and that [Secretary of State Marco] Rubio is waiting for Trump to okay things for Cuba.’
Two sources with an ear to Cuban leadership explain that Havana’s top brass are reportedly ‘shaking in their boots,’ terrified that the same fate that befell Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an airstrike last month, is now heading for the Caribbean.
Trump himself fueled the fire Tuesday, telling reporters at the White House: ‘We’ll be doing something with Cuba very soon.’
This follows his chilling warning on Monday that he could easily ‘take’ the ‘weakened’ island.
Two sources with an ear to Cuban leadership explain that Havana’s top brass are reportedly ‘shaking in their boots.’ File image shows soldiers marching by torchlight in Havana in January
‘I am told Trump is obsessed with Iran right now, and that [Secretary of State Marco] Rubio is waiting for Trump to okay things for Cuba,’ an insider told the Daily Mail
But the stakes are higher than ever because of security fears over a State Department that is reportedly ‘full of Cuban spies.’
Secretary of State Rubio – who has been the architect of the administration’s Cuba strategy – ‘cannot trust that building,’Mike Gonzalez, Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Mail.
Rubio is ‘running a oneman operation right now,’Gonzalez said.
He added that the Cuban regime is ‘afraid’ amid mounting pressure.’America’s enemies are looking at what America has done in Iran,’ he went on. ‘They’re afraid that what happened to Khamenei will happen to [former President of Cuba] Raul Castro.’
As the Caribbean island suffered a total blackout on Monday, the Communist government made a stunning Uturn rooted in pure survival instinct.
Deputy PM Oscar PerezOliva Fraga, the grandnephew of Fidel and Raul Castro, went on NBC to beg for US investment from the very exiles the regime once shunned.
Mike Gonzalez, Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Mail this was a blatant ‘cry of desperation.’
‘Cuba is so desperate in asking the people that hate them the most, Cuban Americans for investments,’ Gonzalez said. ‘This is how desperate Cuba is for cashthey owe the world billions.’
Former Cuban president Raul Castro and the island nation’s current leader Miguel Diaz-Canel
He added that the regime is trying to ‘make the exile community Cuba’s third sugar daddy’ because ‘Communists do not produce bread. They only produce bread lines.’
The primary target for ouster is Miguel DiazCanel, the current President of Cuba. But experts warn that removing him is a ‘worthless objective’ because the Castro family still pulls every string from the shadows.
‘I must make clear that I don’t mean [Miguel] DiazCanel, who does not matter at all, and what happens does not mean anything,’ Gonzalez explained. ‘I don’t care whether he stays or leaves, the people [the Castros] will retain control… they have their fingers in everything and every pie.’
A former US diplomat with decades of experience in the region told the Daily Mail that Trump is seriously considering a ‘Delcy Rodriguez model’ named after the Venezuelan Vice President where a leadership group stays in power but obeys every US command.
‘It appears that Trump would be willing to accept continuation of the Cuban dictatorship, much as in Venezuela, under the same conditions: the new Cuban leadership will be required to comply with all US demands,’ the diplomat revealed. ‘Under this “Delcy model,” it’s likely that the US would demand compensation for US persons whose properties were confiscated by the Castro regime.’
Anti-government protesters look on as a fire burns at a Communist Party office in Moron, Cuba, on March 14
One version of the plan reportedly involves creating a ‘ruling group’ consisting of a ‘new generation’ of Castros, including Raul’s son Alejandro Castro Espin, his grandson Raulito Rodriguez Castro, or their greatnephew Oscar PerezOliva Fraga as the ‘new generation’ of Castros.
A White House spokesperson told the Daily Mail: ‘Only President Trump and Secretary Rubio are privy to conversations about Cuba. The Daily Mail is quoting low-level, anonymous sources who have no idea what they are talking about.’
Gonzalez, however, paints a scathing picture of the heirs to the revolution. He described Raul’s grandson and bodyguard, Raulito, as a ‘drunkard’ and a ‘womanizer.’
‘If you Google Raulito Rodriguez Castro right now, you’re gonna get lots of pictures of him on a yacht, eating lobster, hanging out with women,’ Gonzalez said.
He expressed deep skepticism that Rubio would allow such figures to remain in power.
‘I doubt with Marco Rubio conducting the negotiations, that that is the case,’ Gonzalez insisted. ‘Marco Rubio understands and Trump understands that… what matters here is Raul Castro. It’s the Castro clan.’
While a symbolic win like removing the president would allow Trump to claim he ‘crushed’ a leftist leader, many in the Cuban exile community will settle for nothing less than a total revolution.
‘The additional question would be the reaction of the Cuban diaspora to the de facto continuation of the Castro regime,’ the former diplomat warned. ‘Generations have lived and died in exile without seeing their homeland free.’
For the last three months, the US has choked off Cuba’s oil supply. Pictured: Tanker leaves port in January
People gather on a street during a blackout as Cuba’s national electric grid collapsed, leaving around 10 million people without power
‘There is probably no better or more credible emissary… in selling a Delcystyle nontransition to the Cuban exile community than Secretary Rubio,’ the diplomat added. ‘But at the end of the day, what Cuban Americans want is not a client state in Havana but an end to the Castro regime.’
Florida Representative Tom Fabricio tells the Daily Mail that the end is near.
‘After 12 days of protests, the government has ‘to some degree… lost control’ over the demonstrations,’ Fabricio told the Daily Mail.
Fabricio represents a district in South Florida that includes Northwest Miami-Dade County and part of Hialeah and Miami Lakes. The district is predominantly CubanAmerican.
‘What I am hearing here in Miami is that they [Cuba] will be completely out of petroleum in a day or two at this point,’ Fabricio explained.
‘So there is an expectation that something will happen soon. There is a lot of confidence in South Florida that Trump and Rubio will be doing something swiftly, based on what we saw in Venezuela and Iran. It is moving towards a fever pitch,’Fabricio remarked.