WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (Could 12) stated Cuba was asking for assist and “we’re going to speak”, with out offering any extra element.
“No Republican has ever spoken to me about Cuba, which is a failed nation and solely heading in a single path – down! Cuba is asking for assist, and we’re going to speak!!! Within the meantime, I’m off to China!” Trump wrote in a Fact Social publish.
Representatives for the White Home and the State Division couldn’t be instantly reached for remark. Representatives for Havana additionally couldn’t be instantly reached.
Trump had threatened that Cuba was “subsequent” after the US army seized the chief of longtime Cuban ally Venezuela earlier this 12 months, and has since imposed contemporary monetary sanctions and expanded others. His administration has additionally imposed a fuel blockade, curtailed US journey and remittances to the island nation and sought to dissuade regional allies from contracting Cuban medical doctors.
China, the place Trump is travelling this week to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, has referred to as on Washington to right away finish its embargo and sanctions on Havana.
