Washington and Florida insiders are exploring lucrative deals for a post-communist Cuba crushed by ever-increasing US sanctions
Spanish hotel chains. A Canadian mining firm. European shipping giants. Visa and Mastercard. Scores of foreign companies have been driven out of Cuba this summer over fear of being hit with potent, new secondary sanctions. Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, told Axios last month there are “no escape valves” from his unprecedented pressure campaign against the island.
But not everybody is losing out. A growing cast of Washington and Florida insiders – from billionaire Trump cronies and Rubio-linked lobbyists to Cuban exiles – are jockeying for control of the communist-ruled island-nation’s key assets, charging top dollar to help clients navigate the ever-expanding web of sanctions, and positioning themselves for lucrative business opportunities in the case of regime collapse.
Since an executive order signed by Donald Trump on 1 May drove Canada’s Sherritt International from its nickel and cobalt mining joint venture with the Cuban state, two rival US bids to buy out its stake have been presented to US authorities.
It’s crazy that so many Cuban Americans are trumpsters.
There were a lot of very well off Cubans who fled to the US who probably see this as an opportunity to go and reclaim what they see as long lost family fortunes.
It’s all gonna be Trumps family fortune and they will probably be deported by Steve Miller and charged an exit fee or some BS.
It’s gonna be pretty funny to watch leopard supporters get their face eaten on this one ngl
I don’t even think it’s funny, personally. I think it’s sad. In part because of all the people that suffer, and the suffering of those who were surprised by it really doesn’t make that up, in my mind.
I get it. I just have a different take.
I mean, it’s sad too. But at this point I’m expecting that.
In fairness, I basically sprang off your comment to make my own, but I know you’re not looking at it like telling a joke funny. I just took advantage of your phrasing. :)
They are generally the ones that benefited from the fascist Batista regime, such as plantation owning slavers. They fled from the Cuban revolution, especially once the Cuban government implemented land reform and gave land to the peasantry.
Hopefully now not trumpets
Long live the cuban revolution
glory to the people of cuba
Sanctions aren’t going to make people overthrow the Cuban government. They will only make the Cuban people defend their socialist project more, while they die of preventable causes due to a lack of critical medical supplies and energy. Thank goodness countries like China are helping Cuba develop sovereignty in the energy sector through solar!
I think this may be overly optimistic. Last year the same was said about Venezuela, and look where it is now.
Venezuela hasn’t been overthrown. The commune movement is still alive and well, and the reactionary elements still oppose the PSUV. It’s still an incomplete revolution, one with its hands tied and had to make concessions it did not want to. The Cuban revolution already succeeded, and thus has far more political stability.
“I’m bored. Canada’s boring. Oh, yeah! Cuba!”
All the goddamn greedy coconuts wanting to be the next Fulgencio Batista.
Collapse of the us, not collapse of cuba, right?
Aww who am I kidding they’ll never take him
