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President Donald Trump is executing the playbook he developed for Venezuela to pressure the communist Cuban regime to capitulate, thereby removing the last major bastion of foreign adversary influence in the Western Hemisphere.
And after essentially cutting off the island’s oil supply, there are signs that the regime is starting to feel the heat.
In the aftermath of the U.S. operation to apprehend Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro earlier this year, the Trump administration has ramped up its pressure on Cuba, a close partner of Maduro and, since its communist revolution in 1959 led by Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, a consistent Soviet thorn in the side of the United States in its own backyard.
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And after essentially cutting off the island’s oil supply, there are signs that the regime is starting to feel the heat.
In the aftermath of the U.S. operation to apprehend Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro earlier this year, the Trump administration has ramped up its pressure on Cuba, a close partner of Maduro and, since its communist revolution in 1959 led by Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, a consistent Soviet thorn in the side of the United States in its own backyard.
Trump halts the sale of oil to Cuba
Just weeks after the Venezuela action, President Trump issued an executive order that laid out in sweeping detail the “threats to the United States by the government of Cuba.” The order also directed the U.S. government to implement new tariff barriers aimed at halting the sale of oil to Cuba, cutting off its energy supply.
Trump looks to sever Cuba from sponsorship of its foreign patrons, Chinese & Russian influence
Cuba first received significant support from the Soviet Union shortly after the 1959 revolution, and the island depended on that support for decades until the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. That began a financial spiral for the dictatorship, and now, with the island’s oil supply essentially...
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