Trump believes Cuba will seek a “deal” with the United States and the island will be “free” again

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Washington.- The president of the United States, Donald Trump, considered this Saturday that Cuba will seek a “deal” with Washington after the announcement of tariffs for the countries that supply it with oil and expressed confidence that the island “will be free again”.

The Republican made these statements aboard Air Force One when the press questioned him about the words of the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, who warned that cutting off the supply of crude oil to Cuba will provoke a humanitarian crisis.

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“There doesn’t have to be a humanitarian crisis. I think they’ll probably come to us and want to make a deal. So Cuba will be free again. They will come to us and make a deal,” the president assured. The Republican emphasized that Cuba is in “a very bad situation” because “they lived off the money and oil from Venezuela but none of this is arriving” since the United States captured Nicolás Maduro on January 3rd. He also added that Sheinbaum was “very good” because, according to him, he asked her to also stop sending crude oil to the island and she agreed. Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to impose tariffs on those countries that supply oil to the island. The Cuban government called the measure “fascist,” which in practice means an energy asphyxiation for the island, and Sheinbaum announced that Mexico will seek “different alternatives” to support the Cuban people.
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