{"id":2577233,"date":"2026-03-07T13:10:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuba-is-in-the-crosshairs-at-trumps-shield-of-americas-summit\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T13:11:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:11:25","slug":"cuba-is-in-the-crosshairs-at-trumps-shield-of-americas-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuba-is-in-the-crosshairs-at-trumps-shield-of-americas-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba is in the crosshairs at Trump&#8217;s Shield of Americas Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcuba-is-in-the-crosshairs-at-trumps-shield-of-americas-summit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2577233&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>At the Shield of the Americas Summit in Doral, President Donald Trump told Western hemisphere leaders that \u201cgrate change\u201d is coming to cuba as the United States increases pressure on its communist leadership. He announced a new Americas Counter Cartel Coalition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-names-official-to-help-reverse-trump-era-immigration-policies\/\" title=\"Biden Names Official To Help Reverse ...-Era Immigration Policies\">combat drug trafficking<\/a> and described Cuba as being \u201cat the end of the line\u201d economically, with little money or oil, suggesting regime change could follow Venezuela\u2019s recent upheaval.Trump cited Maduro\u2019s ouster as a turning point and highlighted Rubio\u2019s support for changing Cuba\u2019s government. The management has used tariffs and oil-blockades to pressure Cuba, contributing to an energy crisis, tho recent steps allow some oil shipments. Trump indicated that Cuba could become a U.S. focus after Iran, while Rubio publicly echoed support for regime change as beneficial to the United States.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">&lsquo;Cuba is at the end of the line&rsquo;: Cuba in the crosshairs at Trump&rsquo;s Shield of Americas Summit<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2525042\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a> told Western Hemisphere leaders that &ldquo;great change&rdquo; will soon be coming to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cuba\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"212\">Cuba<\/a> as the U.S. amps up its pressure on the island&rsquo;s communist leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made the comments as part of his remarks at the first <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4484415\/watch-live-trump-speak-shield-americas-summit\/\">Shield of the Americas summit<\/a> in Doral, Florida, where he also announced a new military coalition to tackle <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/drug-cartels\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"2769\">drug cartels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4484447\/trump-announce-america-counter-cartel-coalition-shield-america-summit\/\">Trump announces new &#8216;Americas Counter Cartel Coalition&#8217; at Shield of the Americas Summit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/4483905\/airstrikes-alone-regime-change-iran-difficult\/\">Airstrikes alone make regime change in Iran difficult, experts say<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/4483222\/russia-iran-intelligence-target-us-forces-middle-east\/\">White House downplays Russian assistance for Iran: &#8216;It clearly is not making a difference&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;As we achieve a historic transformation in Venezuela, we&rsquo;re also looking forward to the great change that will soon be coming to Cuba. Cuba&rsquo;s at the end of the line. They&rsquo;re very much at the end of the line. They have no money, they have no oil,&rdquo; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4484447\/trump-announce-america-counter-cartel-coalition-shield-america-summit\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"4484447\">TRUMP ANNOUNCES NEW &lsquo;AMERICAS COUNTER CARTEL COALITION&rsquo; AT SHIELD OF THE AMERICAS SUMMIT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has been alluding to leadership change in Communist Cuba for several weeks, with Trump saying last week the island could see a &ldquo;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4474598\/trump-us-friendly-takeover-cuba\/\">friendly takeover<\/a>&rdquo; of its regime soon. The administration has threatened to tariff Cuba&rsquo;s trade partners and has blockaded the island from receiving oil imports, which has sparked a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oil-prices-soar-past-81-opec-wont-budge-from-gradual-supply-increase-despite-demand\/\" title=\"... Prices Soar Past , OPEC+ Won\u2019t Budge From Gradual Supply Increase Despite Demand\">deepening energy crisis<\/a> in the country. The Treasury Department, though, recently <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-and-environment\/4472229\/trump-administration-eases-grip-oil-shipments-cuba\/\">announced plans<\/a> to allow new oil shipments into Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>The United States&rsquo;s ouster of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nicolas-maduro\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"2252\">Nicol&aacute;s Maduro<\/a> in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/venezuela\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"910\">Venezuela<\/a> &ndash; a former major supplier of oil to Cuba &ndash; tipped the scales for potential regime change in Cuba, which has long been a goal of Secretary of State <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/marco-rubio\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"51\">Marco Rubio<\/a>, whose family fled the communist state for Florida. Trump said on Saturday that Cuba has &ldquo;a bad regime that&rsquo;s been bad for a long time,&rdquo; and that he and Rubio have been in talks with the country.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I would think a deal would be made very easily with Cuba, but for 50 years, I&rsquo;ve been hearing &ndash; as a little boy, I&rsquo;d be hearing about Cuba &ndash; you know, Cuba is a disaster,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;But Cuba&rsquo;s in its last moments of life as it was. It&rsquo;ll have a great new life, but it&rsquo;s in its last moments of life the way it is.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump declared the U.S.&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >current foreign policy focus<\/a> is on its war with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"100\">Iran<\/a>, but said Rubio could &ldquo;take one hour off&rdquo; and &ldquo;finish up a deal on Cuba.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4482569\/trump-us-focus-cuba-after-iran-in-couple-weeks\/\">TRUMP ALL BUT DECLARES US WILL TURN FOCUS TO CUBA AFTER IRAN IN &lsquo;A COUPLE OF WEEKS&rsquo;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rubio voiced his support for a Cuban regime change publicly before Congress in late January.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Regime change? Oh no, I think we would love to see the regime there change,&rdquo; Rubio&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4437294\/rubio-trump-administration-love-regime-change-cuba\/\">said<\/a>. &ldquo;That doesn&rsquo;t mean we are going to make a change, but we would love to see a change. There&rsquo;s no doubt about the fact that it would be of great benefit to the United States if Cuba was no longer governed by an autocratic regime.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paraphrase:<br \/>\nAt the Shield of the Americas summit in Doral, Florida, President Donald Trump told Western Hemisphere leaders that major changes are coming to Cuba as the United States intensifies pressure on its communist government. He also unveiled a new military coalition to fight drug cartels. Trump suggested that as Venezuela undergoes a historic transformation, Cuba is reaching a turning point, describing the island as being at the end of the line: financially strapped and lacking oil. The administration has signaled regime-change in Cuba for weeks, even hinting at a possible \u201cfriendly takeover,\u201d while pursuing tariffs on Cuba\u2019s trading partners and restricting oil imports that have worsened the country\u2019s energy crisis. The Treasury later announced plans to allow some oil shipments into Cuba. The recent departure of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in Venezuela has shifted the calculus for Cuba, a long-time goal of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has urged conversation with the Cuban leadership. Trump asserted that Cuba\u2019s current regime is deeply problematic but suggested a deal could be made easily and indicated that the U.S. focus could shift to Cuba after Iran within a short period. Rubio has publicly supported regime change in Cuba, arguing it would benefit the United States even if action isn\u2019t guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>55-character headline:<br \/>\nCuba at tipping point as Trump predicts change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3976,"featured_media":2577234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26066549970097.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[13954,4551,75306,3634,75307],"class_list":["post-2577233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-cuba","tag-foreign-policy","tag-shield-of-americas-summit","tag-trump","tag-us-cuba-relations-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26066549970097.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2577233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577237,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577233\/revisions\/2577237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2577234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}