🚨 The New York Times reveals that the Trump administration is looking within or around the Cuban regime itself for a figure who could assume power in an eventual transition and work with the United States. According to the report, Washington wants to avoid a power vacuum and is studying a model similar to the one applied in Venezuela: finding a pragmatic leader who could replace the current leadership without causing a total collapse of the system. Among the names that appear are Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, “El Cangrejo,” grandson of Raúl Castro, and the Interior Minister, Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas. The CIA director, John Ratcliffe, met with both during his visit to Cuba this year. The U.S. has also demanded that Havana liberalize its economy, open space to American companies, buy oil from the U.S., and expel Russian and Chinese intelligence operatives. In exchange, Washington would have offered more humanitarian aid and relief from some sanctions. The problem for Washington is that its intelligence agencies consider that Cuba has few “pragmatic” leaders with real capacity to assume power and that many of the figures who could emerge belong to harder-line sectors of the regime. Meanwhile, the CIA has already created a special task force dedicated to Cuba, and the Trump administration continues to increase economic and political pressure on Havana. #Cuba #EstadosUnidos #DonaldTrump #CIA #ElCangrejo #RaulCastro #DiazCanel #NoticiasDeCuba https://x.com/mariojpenton/status/2085825808942174667?s=46&t=gT6uLhaVod8uwzT4p6povA