Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) is defending her April trip to Cuba after revealing she met directly with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, foreign ambassadors, and senior government officials to discuss lifting U.S. sanctions and the American fuel embargo against the communist island.
Fidel Castro's grandson, Sandro Castro, told CNN that if it were up to him, he would want to make a deal with President Trump and declared that many Cubans "want to be capitalist, not communist."
Cuban dissidents responded with outrage this weekend as a convoy of American and international leftists arrived in Havana to show solidarity with the 67-year-old communist regime, staying at five-star tourist hotels while the island endured a nationwide electricity blackout.
Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío told NBC's "Meet the Press" that the country is preparing for the "possibility of military aggression."
Cuba's communist leader, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, vowed to resist U.S. pressure on the country, declaring that it will be met with "impregnable resistance" if it tries to threaten Cuba.
Protesters in central Cuba looted and set fire to the Communist Party headquarters in Moron, Ciego de Avila, early Saturday morning, in what witnesses described as one of the most dramatic confrontations in the country's unfolding wave of anti-communist demonstrations.
Anti-communist groups in Cuba signed the Agreement for the Liberation of Cuba on Monday to implement changes to the country, effectively ending communism.
President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration is in communication with the Cuban government and suggested the possibility of a “friendly takeover” of the island nation.
