Cuban FM says that Rubio’s “Personal” agenda in Latin America risks Trump’s peace prospect

New York – The recent American escalations in the Caribbean are the result of the “personal” program of the Secretary of State Marco Rubio against the region, said the best diplomat in Cuba, adding that his American counterpart is growing more and more policies that do not line up with the so-called mandate of the so-called peace mandate for President Donald Trump.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, told the Associated Press that Cuba had seen the possibility of changing the long-standing antagonistic dynamics between the United States and the island led by the Communists when Trump returned in office in January. But he added that Rubio, who was born from Cuban immigrants, went to Washington to adopt an even stronger “maximum pressure” campaign against Havana.

“The current Secretary of State was not born in Cuba, never went to Cuba and knows nothing Cuba,” said Rodríguez in an interview with the Associated Press on Tuesday. “But there is a very personal and corrupt program he implements, which seems to sacrifice the national interests of the United States in order to advance this very extremist approach.”

The State Department did not respond to a request for comments. Rubio and US officials defended their aggressive position against Cuba, accusing his leaders of managing a dictatorship.

“The United States will continue to represent human rights and the fundamental freedoms of the people of Cuba, and clearly show any illegitimate dictatorial regime is welcome in our hemisphere,” Rubio said in a July statement.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and other Cuban officials followed the diplomatic lines with the Trump administration as they seek at the end of an American economic embargo of six decades, which, while not overthrowing the government, caused energy failures, food shortages and generalized inflation.

In public statements and speeches, officials have moved away from criticizing Trump directly for the series of aggressive actions that his administration took against Cuba during the first eight months of his second term. These include restoring a range of restrictive economic sanctions that have been relaxed during the terms of Democratic presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. In the days preceding his departure, Biden had moved to raise the American designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism.

Trump has given the country to the list the day after its inauguration. The United States also made Cuba one of the seven countries faced with increased restrictions on visitors and revoked temporary legal protections that had protected approximately 300,000 Cubans from the expulsion. The administration has also announced restrictions on visas on Cuban and foreign government officials involved in Cuba’s medical missions, which Rubio described as “forced work”.

Rodríguez, who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2009, blame these climbs against Cuba and the recents against Venezuela in the “bipolar” state department, and not Trump’s white house. He added that Trump “describes himself as a defender of peace”, but it is Rubio who “promotes the use of force or the threat of using force as a usual daily tool”.

Before being exploited as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, Rubio had already had an influence on American policy towards Latin America during Trump’s first term.

The former Florida senator admitted that his interest in targeting the Latin American leaders on the left was personal. His parents are Cuban immigrants who arrived in Miami in 1956, shortly before the Communist Revolution of Fidel Castro in 1959. He grew up in Miami, where many Cubans were looking for refuge after the rise of Castro.

His constant criticism of communism helped to win him the support of thousands of members of the Venezuelan diaspora who made Florida their new home to escape crime, economic deprivation and disorders under the president of Venezuelan Nicolás Maduro and his predecessor, the deployment of Hugo Chávez, who assumed the presidency in 1999 and started his revolution in 1999 and Socialist-dedication.

Lobbying for a new intervention in the United States in Latin America, which defined a large part of Rubio in politics in politics, was recently exposed when the United States has sent a fleet of American warships to water off Venezuela after ordering deadly consecutive strikes on alleged drugs.

Rodríguez said Cuba acted in “solidarity” with Venezuela and warned that the unusual naval accumulation of South America and the speculation that Trump could try to overthrow Maduro “could cause unpredictable and catastrophic consequences”. The Trump administration said that she was trying to force Cuba to stop supporting Maduro, who, according to the United States, receives military and intelligence aid from Cubans.

When he was asked if Cuba would argue militarily Venezuela if an invasion should happen, he dismantled, saying: “We do not know what the future can bring.”

But Rodríguez expressed his optimism as to the prospects for a less contradictory relationship with his neighbor in the North and said that those responsible continue to cooperate with Washington on several bilateral agreements, including counter-terrorism and migration.

He added: “We are fully disposed, as we have always been, to start now, today, a serious and responsible dialogue with the current American administration.”