Trump\u2019s remarks about Cuba, delivered almost casually on CNN, were anything but accidental. Framed as an inevitability \u2014 \u201cCuba is gonna fall pretty soon\u201d \u2014 his words carried the weight of decades of Cold War scars and failed invasions. He boasted the island had \u201cfallen right into my lap,\u201d casting himself as the man history had been waiting for, even as Iran reels from US and Israeli strikes and the assassination of Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For Cubans, and for millions across Latin America, the threat revives old ghosts: embargo, isolation, and the specter of forced change from Washington. Under Obama, cautious openings had begun to soften a hardened past; Trump first slammed those doors shut, and now hints at something far more direct. Between Iran\u2019s demand for \u201cunconditional surrender\u201d and Cuba\u2019s supposed coming \u201cfall,\u201d a chilling question hangs over the hemisphere: how far is he willing to go this time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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