from the day castro defeated batista the empire has been itching to make it ours again and here is some of how they appear to be doing it; 

 

Trump promulgated a “national emergency” last week for granting himself the power to impose tariffs on any country that supplies Cuba with oil. This primarily affects Mexico, which replaced Venezuela as Cuba’s top oil supplier after the US’ capture of President Nicolas Maduro resulted in it obtaining proxy control over the Bolivarian Republic’s energy industry through his successor. Just prior to Trump’s decree, Mexico temporarily paused its oil shipments to Cuba, which now has only 15-20 days of oil left.

It was assessed here in January that “Cutting [Cuba’s oil imports] off could accelerate the economy’s collapse and thus subordinate it to the US, with or without regime change, like Washington has sought to achieve for decades already.” Trump predicted in the run-up to promulgating his latest “national emergency” that “Cuba is really a nation that is very close to falling” while Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee that “we would like to see the regime there change.”

Nevertheless, the Venezuelan precedent proves that the US can accept “regime tweaking” in lieu of regime change, which refers to keeping the targeted state’s power structure in place after some (at times significant) changes that advance the meddling state’s interests. Trump’s “national emergency” decree makes it clear that he wants Cuba to cut off ties with Russia, China, Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah. He also wants Cuba to implement “meaningful reforms” that strongly imply initiating a phased regime change...........more..........