The U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, sent a direct message to the Cuban people on the island's Independence Day this Tuesday and proposed a “new relationship” between Washington and Cuba, while making it clear that any rapprochement must occur without the continuity of the current communist regime.
The message, fully disseminated in Spanish, represents one of the harshest statements from the Donald Trump administration against Havana since the onset of the new U.S. offensive against the Cuban regime. Rubio accused the communist leadership of corruption, economic looting, and of using the military conglomerate GAESA as the main tool for political and financial control over the island.
“President Trump offers a new relationship between the United States and a new Cuba,” Rubio stated during the video released on May 20, a date that commemorates the establishment of the Republic of Cuba in 1902 and was removed from the official calendar after the Castro revolution in 1959.













