Trump’s War Memorandum and Marco Rubio’s Schemes

Though expected, the National Security Memorandum signed by Donald Trump this Monday, as a declaration of extreme economic war against Cuba, still surprises due to the manipulative ability and lack of scruples of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who uses his superpower influence to try to bring the Cuban people to their knees.

The genocidal chorus of anti-Cuban congressmen is delighted to see Rubio’s “progress,” so aligned with their calls for military interventions and more suffocation measures against the people they claim to support—yet aim to push into conflict, with violent or terrorist incitements and calls from the U.S. or through the provocative actions of their macabre puppet, disguised as a “Chargé d’Affaires” for their warmongering agenda, attempting to subvert and lure carefully preselected sectors of Cuban society into their destabilizing plans.

Meanwhile, those accused of being traitors, both there and in their embassy here, turn their backs on hundreds of thousands of migrants or those interested in traveling. They call for banning remittances, travel, business, and exchanges—proof of their annexationist nature, their resentment, and their deceitful tactics.

The New Herald and mafia agent Nora Gámez, a habitual figure in “leaks,” fabricating fake news, interventionist pretexts, or frenzied attacks against armed or security forces—an employee of USAID and intelligence services—have been tasked with baring the fangs of this monstrosity, threatening, intimidating, and once again predicting the final hour.

Between sensationalism and cruelty, the macabre and contempt, the Herald’s “reporter” describes it as “a significant step to implement the hardline policy against Cuba promised by Secretary of State Marco Rubio” and claims that “the U.S. will sanction foreign companies doing business with Cuban military-linked enterprises as part of a maximum-pressure campaign against the communist island.”

Extraterritoriality, pressure, and blackmail—the favorite tools of the U.S. diplomacy chief and his dictator in the White House—are once again evident in sanctions as weapons to scare off foreign investment, intimidate businesses operating on the island, deal a crushing blow to tourism with increased persecution and obstacles of all kinds, and tighten the blockade with every coercive measure they can devise.

As if they weren’t responsible for the limitations on Cuba’s digital transformation, they cynically announce they will intensify subversion through “efforts to expand internet access and the free flow of information to Cubans.”

New blacklists feature in Trump’s memorandum to punish Cuba’s economy and its people, now under the pretext of blocking any foreign business dealings with Cuban entities linked to the military sector, as well as establishing regulations to prohibit direct or indirect financial transactions with such entities or sub-entities.

For travel to Cuba, there will be periodic audits or controls, while the Treasury Department will also expand the definition of “prohibited officials of the Cuban government” to include all employees of the Interior Ministry and the Armed Forces, as well as all employees of the Supreme Court, among others.

In these fragile days of nuclear threats, as American democracy wobbles under unchecked imperial delusions—with attacks on congressmembers, persecution of journalists, prosecutors, lawyers, university students, or peaceful protesters in solidarity with Palestine, migrants forcibly confined in concentration camps on military bases—it’s no surprise that Trump lets himself be dragged once more by the warmongers in the war against Cuba.