{"id":17859,"date":"2026-02-01T22:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=17859"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:10:30","slug":"us-is-in-talks-with-cuban-leadership-says-trump-after-blockade-threats-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=17859","title":{"rendered":"US is in talks with Cuban leadership, says Trump, after blockade threats | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Washington is negotiating with Havana\u2019s leadership to strike a deal, Donald Trump has said, days after threatening Cuba\u2019s reeling economy with a virtual oil blockade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cCuba is a failing nation. It has been for a long time but now it doesn\u2019t have Venezuela<\/a> to prop it up. So we\u2019re talking to the people from Cuba, the highest people in Cuba, to see what happens,\u201d Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re going to make a deal with Cuba<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump gave no indication what such a deal might entail.<\/p>\n

The US president had said on Saturday: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be a humanitarian crisis. I think they probably would come to us and want to make a deal \u2026 They have a situation that\u2019s very bad for Cuba. They have no money. They have no oil. They lived off Venezuelan money and oil, and none of that\u2019s coming now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s second administration has been ratcheting up pressure on the communist-run island nation off south Florida since it ousted the Venezuelan leader, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, whose country was a close ally of Havana and a crucial source for oil exports to Cuba.<\/p>\n

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On Thursday, the Republican president signed an executive order threatening to impose additional tariffs<\/a> on countries that sell oil to Cuba.<\/p>\n

Hours later, Cubans were queueing up on Friday in long lines at petrol stations in Havana.<\/p>\n

Trump and the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, the Miami-born son of Cuban exiles, have made no secret of their desire to bring regime change in Havana.<\/p>\n

After Maduro\u2019s fall, the US president warned Havana to \u201cmake a deal soon\u201d or face unspecified consequences.<\/p>\n

\u201cNO MORE OIL OR MONEY FOR CUBA: ZERO!\u201d Trump had stated earlier, claiming Cuba was \u201cready to fall\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Cuban government has accused Trump of seeking to strangle the island\u2019s economy, where daily power cuts are intensifying and lines at petrol stations are getting longer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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