Coral Gables—After taking out Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump appears to have set his sights on the Communist Cuban regime, and has put into place a crippling oil embargo that has brought the island nation to its knees.
“Cuba is going to be something we'll end up talking about,” said President Trump during a press conference in Mar-a-Lago.
"Cuba is not doing very well right now. That system is not been a very good one for Cuba, the people there have suffered for many many years and I think Cuba is going to be something we'll end up talking about because Cuba is a failing nation right now, very badly failing nation and we want to help the people get very similar in the sense that we want to help the people in Cuba but we want to also helped the people that were forced out of Cuba and living in this country," added President Trump.
With the Cuban regime possibly on the verge of collapse, American lawmakers like Reps. Carlos Gimenez and Lt. Governor Jay Collins have been vocalizing their support for regime change in Cuba.
Shortly before addressing a group of Cuban American donors and leaders at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. Lt. Gov. Collins spoke to The Floridian about the current state of Cuba.
Collins contends that the recent fall of Dictator Maduro was nothing more than President Trump having” pulled the rug out from underneath Cuba,” and sent a stern message to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which he believes has been the source of funding for the rise of Communism in the Western Hemisphere.
“Look at what we’ve done. You saw Venezuela. You saw that happen. That break, us pull Maduro, and now he's going to face consequences, the reality of what he caused,” said Collins. “He wasn't clearly elected; he was a despot who held the position, but that pulled the rug out from underneath Cuba. It did. It also put a shot against the bow of China, the CCP, who, truthfully, have been funding a lot of this.”
Collins also said the quiet part out loud regarding the ongoing new Cold War between the U.S. and China.
“We have to understand, we are not coming into a proxy war, we've been in a proxy war for a lot of years now already, and Cuba is on our doorstep, it is nested into the mindset and the heart of Florida, very much so, right here in Miami,” he added.
Meanwhile, Progressive House Democrats have filed a legislative measure to keep President Trump from attacking Cuba.
