Cuba’s Debate Is Missing What Cubans Want
As Washington and Havana spar over the island's future, its citizens demand a solution to more pressing problems.
Days ago, President Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly that Cuba is a failed state whose system will fall, prompting the Cuban delegation to walk out. Hours later, on September 23, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington is open to discussing a transition to new leadership and ending the embargo on the island. Their public salvos were nothing new; what mattered was the sequence in which they came, and the little attention given to the country’s ongoing crisis and the suffering of its citizens. Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla answered from the same...
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