Cuba’s national grid collapsed for the second time this week, plunging the island nation into darkness.
“We are already working on restoring the National Electric Power System, a complex situation amid all the difficulties we face on a daily basis,” Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy wrote on social media.
An outage cut off power to the island’s ten million residents on Monday, and parts of the island were still without power when the second blackout happened.
The country has struggled to keep the lights on thanks to an ongoing oil blockade by the US, which many believe could be a prelude to a regime-change operation to remove the communist leadership.
At the end of June, President Trump suggested that could happen at any time.
Asked if an operation against Cuba could resemble the raid that captured Nicolas Maduro at the beginning of January, Trump told Axios, “Possibly. It’s possible.”
“Operation Absolute Resolve” used special forces to breach Maduro’s compound in Caracas. The president and his wife were captured and brought back to the US.
President Trump said Secretary of State Marco Rubio is involved in the Cuba policy.
“Marco’s doing a great job,” Trump said.
“Marco’s parents—it’s such a great story—his parents were from Cuba.”
President Trump went on to discuss the Venezuela operation in some detail, saying it was less complex than the campaign against Iran, and that distance is an important factor in what happens with regard to Cuba.
“These places are close by. Whereas if you look at Iran, that’s a very long trip,” Trump said.
“I flew to that area a few times and unrelated to this, but you’re flying for 18 hours, you’re flying for a long time. Venezuela is relatively close, and Cuba is a hopscotch.”
President Trump added that a crucial difference between Venezuela and Cuba is oil—or Cuba’s lack of it.
“Cuba has nice property, and a nice shoreline.”
After Operation Absolute Resolve, which saw a pro-US leadership installed in Venezuela, shipments of oil to Cuba were restricted, plunging the island into an energy crisis that has seen widespread blackouts.
The Trump administration has also expanded sanctions against the regime and indicted former president Raul Castro on murder charges.
As well as a potential military operation, President Trump has suggested a “friendly takeover” of Cuba, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio playing an important role.
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The keys to prosperity.
In general, take the best of Christian morals. The ten commandments, and believe in free will choice as given by God that no man can take away. Must believe in capitalism and socialism blended in a fair society by a good democracy/government system.
Must have strong good sense constitutional rights, noncentralised power, and first and 2nd admendments with a bill of rights. Such things enable prosperity, dictatorship control destroys prosperity.
In general, must by design of government have enough political power in direct control by the people. Or dictatorship hell will rage on. However, the people must be educated with the correct kind of morals or hell will rage onward.
In other words as the elites do in future Cuba, shows the world’s likely future.
Puppet in central power or strongman dictator in power of Cuba?. A dictatorship called republic is the pattern across the world. Right now the elites are building AI control grids to run with management the dictatorship republics across the world.
So of course the plan for Cuba must be a puppet president, with a puppet single political party in control . Then rapid build up of a AI control system, with AI data centers in or outside of Cuba., in some fashion
However, there will be no prospherty with such a control system. Cuba has no fat to steal from, so chaos will rage even greater, so will most of the rest of the world. For instance not much chance for the middle east and Europe, they are not lifting up, they are eroding downward.
So the plan? A puppet president in Cuba, then start putting up a AI data center.? The modern control grid , tie into existing spy and tracking grids, in Cuba, and build that up too. Something like that?
Here is the problem, under such a control system, it is impossible to build the country up. The stealing will be too great and Cuba has no fat left to steal from right now. In other words the current in control elite’s and intellectuals can only rape, pillage and steal and can’t build up anything.
The hell and chaos will continue in Cuba and likely grow, 4th world country. As impossible as it would be , Cuba would have a better chance trying for a different design of government or democracy etc. Msybe based on an old Switzerland model or something even better. But to do so will take a good faith effort, not the evil in today’s world.