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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio connected Tuesday (March 17, 2026) denied a study that U.S. officials person urged Cuba to oust its President, Miguel Diaz-Canel.
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In a late-night station connected X, Mr. Rubio said that the nonfiction by The New York Times was "fake" and was among media reports that relied connected "charlatans and liars claiming to beryllium successful the know" arsenic sources.
The paper reported Monday (March 16) that officials nether President Donald Trump person asked Cuba to region the president but person not pushed for a implicit toppling of the communist government.
Mr. Rubio did not accidental if helium was denying the full nonfiction oregon peculiar parts of it.
The paper said that U.S. officials saw Mr. Diaz-Canel arsenic a hardliner who would not institute change, but that the United States had not gone truthful acold arsenic to contented an ultimatum for his removal.
Mr. Rubio, a Cuban-American erstwhile legislator from Miami, has for years pushed for the extremity of the communist strategy successful Cuba, launched by Fidel Castro successful a 1959 revolution.
Mr. Rubio earlier Tuesday (March 17) told reporters that Cuba needed to instrumentality much "dramatic" enactment than caller measures to let overseas Cubans to put and ain businesses successful the island, which a time earlier suffered a nationwide blackout.
Mr. Trump has piled unit connected Cuba, which has been suffering an economical crisis. Trump forced Venezuela to halt sending oil, which made up fractional of Cuba's needs, aft U.S. forces raided Caracas successful January and deposed and snatched the leftist president, Nicolas Maduro.
Mr. Trump has said that helium is funny successful an unspecified "deal" with Cuba, but besides has boasted that helium tin instrumentality implicit the country, saying that it is weak.
In Venezuela and present successful Iran, which helium attacked with Israel connected February 28, Mr. Trump has pursued a strategy not of seeking to overthrow governments but of forcing compliance.
Mr. Trump has voiced happiness with Venezuela's interim President, Delcy Rodriguez, who was Mr. Maduro's Vice President, aft threatening her with unit if she does not conscionable his demands, including preferential attraction for U.S. lipid companies.
Unlike Venezuela and Iran, Cuba does not person lipid wealth, but it carries value successful home U.S. politics.
Cuban-American lawmakers, mostly portion of Trump's Republican Party, person agelong pushed for unit connected Havana.
