Source: The American Prospect
by Nathan Thompson
“After President Trump’s shocking, illegal attack on Caracas and seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in the early-morning hours of January 3, celebratory Latin America hawks didn’t wait long to turn their attention to Cuba. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, famously of Cuban descent and the nation’s Cuba hawk-in-chief, stood at the White House’s impromptu Mar-a-Lago dais and said: ‘If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I’d be concerned.’ Trump himself approvingly shared a Truth Social post proposing Rubio as Cuba’s next president, made various proclamations that Cuba’s socialist government is set to collapse, and most significantly, announced a national emergency over the island of nine million’s ‘unusual and extraordinary threat … to the national security and foreign policy of the United States,’ threatening tariffs on any country that provides oil to Cuba—a measure targeted squarely at Mexico, which has become Cuba’s largest supplier.” (02/12/25)
https://prospect.org/2026/02/12/marco-rubio-trump-cuba-venezuela/