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Cuba Tried to Deliver Secret Letter Directly to Trump: WSJ
The message reportedly sought economic deals and sanctions relief while warning of a possible U.S. incursion, U.S. officials said.
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Miami International Airport intercepted a letter addressed to President Donald Trump from Raúl Rodríguez Castro, grandson of former Cuban leader Raúl Castro.
- Seeking to bypass Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Cuban government orchestrated the clandestine delivery to reach the White House directly as the island faces its worst economic crisis in decades.
- Formatted with an official Cuban seal, the note "proposed economic and investment agreements as well as sanctions relief, and warned that the Cuban regime was preparing for a U.S. incursion," a U.S. official said.
- After seizing the letter from Roberto Carlos Chamizo González, a 37-year-old tourism tycoon, officials returned him to Havana, collapsing the delivery plan.
- President Trump has previously stated intentions to "take Cuba in one form or another," while Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said he refuses to negotiate over Cuba's political system.
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