A month has passed since President Donald Trump authorized the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, and Cuba’s leaders are “sweating,” according to one expert on the country.
The Cuban regime is “sweating because Trump is unpredictable,” John Suarez, executive director of the Center for a Free Cuba, told The Daily Signal. Trump “may not do a regime change operation, but he may eliminate key figures from the [Cuban] regime like he did with Maduro,” he said.
Some of Cuba’s “key figures” include President Miguel Díaz-Canel and former President Raúl Castro, who retains significant power over the regime, according to Suarez.
The Cuban regime has watched Trump take bold foreign policy actions, Suarez explains, from bombing Iran’s three key nuclear facilities in June, to arresting Maduro on Jan. 3 and bringing him back to New York City to stand trial for multiple charges, including narco-terrorism.
The U.S. has a historically tense relationship with Cuba, with no formal diplomatic relations between 1961 and 2015.
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