The President of the United States, Donald Trump, reiterated this Thursday his intention to leave completely closed “the matter” of Cuba before leaving the White House within two years, and keeps on the table the option of resorting, if he considers it necessary, to “a brief military operation” to take control of the island and force a change of authorities following the model applied in Venezuela.
“I want to resolve the matter of Cuba before I leave, and for that we have a very good guy with a lot of talent called Marco,” the president said in an interview granted to the conservative channel Salem News Channel, referring to his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
During the conversation, Trump again hinted at the possibility of launching a military offensive against Cuba if the situation reaches that point. “It’s clear that I would consider it,” he warned, thereby linking it to what happened in Venezuela at the beginning of the year, when the U.S. Army captured President Nicolás Maduro during a lightning raid in Caracas.
With these words, the president practically copied, almost word for word, statements made at the end of last month, when he said that “he will take care of Cuba” once the war in Iran is concluded, and expressed his intention to subsequently send the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to “close deals.”