Rubio offers Cuban people ‘new relationship’ in Spanish-language message
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Cuba’s people can have a “new relationship” with the US in a message condemning the Communist island’s current leadership.
“The reason you are forced to survive 22 hours a day without electricity is not due to an oil blockade by the US,” Rubio said in the Spanish-language message posted to X Wednesday morning, blaming the GAESA conglomerate run by Cuba’s armed forces and founded by former leader Raul Castro.
“Cuba is controlled by GAESA,” the secretary said. “While you suffer, these businessmen have $18 billion in assets and control 70% of Cuba’s economy.”
“President Trump is offering a new relationship between the US and Cuba. But it must be with you, the Cuban people, and not GAESA,” continued Rubio, reiterating an offer of $100 million in food and medical assistance from the US, to be distributed through the Catholic Church and other non-government organizations.
The Justice Department is expected later Wednesday to unseal an indictment of Raul Castro, charging him with ordering the shootdown of two Miami-based rescue planes in 1996, killing four people.
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