US President Donald Trump said this Monday that he believes his Government can focus on Cuba once it resolves the war against Iran, at a time when Washington assures that they continue to maintain contacts with Havana while the island continues to suffer from the US oil blockade.
«Cuba is a nation in collapse. “We are going to carry out this initiative (to prevent it from receiving oil on a regular basis), and it is possible that we will make a stop in Cuba once we have concluded this (in reference to the war against Iran),” Trump told the media during an event at the White House.
The New York tycoon responded in this way when asked about Washington’s recent decision to allow some oil tankers to reach the island, which requires about 60,000 barrels of imported crude oil daily to satisfy its energy needs.
The Trump Government announced at the end of March that it would analyze each oil shipment “on a case-by-case basis” after allowing the Russian ship Anatoly Kolodkin to carry 100,000 tons of crude oil to Cuba in the midst of the serious energy crisis that the island is experiencing, deepened with the oil blockade imposed by Washington since the US captured Nicolás Maduro in January.
«It has been a very oppressive regime, as you know. We have many extraordinary Cuban-Americans—virtually all of them voted for me—and they have been treated terribly. In many cases, their relatives have been murdered. They have been beaten and assaulted; Truly atrocious things have happened in Cuba,” Trump added about the island.
He also said that “it has been governed in a horrible way by (Fidel) Castro” for many years.
After the US oil strangulation began, Trump has insisted on several occasions that the Castro government of Miguel Díaz-Canel is about to collapse and has gone so far as to suggest that the US would carry out “a friendly takeover” of Cuba.
Controversy over doctored image
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, defended this Monday having published an image of himself on social networks that represented him as Jesus the healer because, he said, he believed it was him being a “doctor.”
«Yes I published it, I thought it was me as a doctor. It’s supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better. And I do make people better,” he told the press at the White House after having deleted the controversial publication.
Trump also attacked the press for having echoed the controversy and said that “only the fake news media could invent something like that.”
The Republican published on Sunday on his Truth Social network an image generated with artificial intelligence in which he appears represented as Jesus the healer, a publication that he deleted after it generated rejection from the Catholic community.
The American leader also published an unprecedented message in which he harshly criticized Pope Leo XIV for his opposition to the war in Iran that the United States and Israel started on February 28.
