MIAMI — As U.S.-Cuba negotiations continued, President Donald Trump’s administration was preparing to announce a new deal soon, sources with knowledge of the plan recently said, according to USA Today.
Cuban exiles were concerned about a deal with protections for Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and Raúl Castro, and had high hopes for the release of political prisoners.
“It has to lead to a transition away from these dictators, away from the authoritarian regimes,” Rep. Carlos Giménez wrote on X.
Meanwhile, Cubans on the communist island were eager to put an end to power outages and shortages of fuel, food, medicine, and other goods, as oil and tourism dried up.
“We cannot, ahead of time, have a situation in which they deal with a dictator to do business,” Ramon Saul Sanchez said in Miami’s Little Havana.
Miami Commissioner Rolando Escalona agreed.
“I came here 11 years ago from Cuba,” Escalona said. “They have nothing. That has been the situation in Cuba for many, many years. It’s just now it’s worse, so hopefully we’ll see a change.”
In west Miami-Dade County Monday night, the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance came together.
“This is the moment to end the regime and begin a new phase of Cuban history,” said Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat, General Secretary of Assembly of the Cuban Resistance.
Those activists believe this is the closest they’ve ever been to true change in Cuba.
“When (a regime change) happens, I’ll take a moment to think about all the Cubans who died to achieve liberation for Cuba, those who have died fighting the regime, those who have died at sea, the thousands who have been executed,” said Gutiérrez-Boronat.
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