US offers new relationship to Cuba in Rubio message
Rubio said the aid would bypass Cuba’s military-run conglomerate and be delivered through the Catholic Church or trusted charities.
- On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed the Cuban people in a Spanish-language video, offering $100 million in food and medicine to address the nation's humanitarian crisis.
- Rubio conditioned the aid on distribution via the Catholic Church to bypass GAESA, the military-linked conglomerate he accused of plundering national wealth instead of helping ordinary citizens.
- The U.S. Justice Department is expected to announce criminal charges against 94-year-old former President Raul Castro today, relating to the 1996 downing of two civilian planes operated by Brothers to the Rescue.
- Cuba's top diplomat, Lianys Torres Rivera, stated the country remains open to aid if provided in good faith, though few details of the proposal have been relayed to her.
- Heightened tensions follow the U.S. ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January, which cut off Cuba's oil supplies and deepened the island's severe energy blackouts and food shortages.
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Marco Rubio confirmed that the United States is committed to sending humanitarian aid to the Cuban people for $100 million in food and medicine, on the condition that it be distributed by the Church or “another charitable group of trust,” as Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez announced on Thursday, May 15. The Secretary of State of the United States called on the “walking Cubans” on the island to build a “new Cuba” proposed by President Dona…
In Spanish, Marco Rubio addressed Cubans on his Independence Day and assured that the difficulties of the population are not caused by the US, but by the country's leaders.
Rubio to Cubans: Don't Blame the US
Marco Rubio used Cuba's independence day to deliver a rare, direct message to Cubans in Spanish, accusing the island's communist leadership—not Washington—of causing the country's deepening blackout crisis . The secretary of state said leadership claims that the US oil blockade is to blame are a smokescreen, arguing that...
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