Now that they’ve booted Maduro, the Trump administration is scouting around for Cuban government insiders who can help push out the current regime, sources have told the Wall Street Journal.
Cuba’s fragile economy was largely propped up by aid from Maduro, these people said. MAGA geniuses don’t have an actual plan, but they see Maduro’s capture and subsequent concessions from his allies left behind as a blueprint and a warning for Cuba.
“I strongly suggest they make a deal. BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE,” President Trump stated in a Jan. 11 social-media post in which he said “NO MORE OIL OR MONEY” would be going to Cuba.
In meetings with Cuban exiles and civic groups in Miami and Washington, they have focused on identifying somebody inside the current government who will see the writing on the wall and want to cut a deal, just as they did with Maduro, one U.S. official said.
The U.S. hasn’t publicly threatened to use military force in Cuba (yet), Trump officials say the raid that extracted Maduro should serve as an implicit threat to Havana.
