{"id":124526,"date":"2026-03-17T14:17:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/cuba-could-experience-freedom-for-first-time-in-70-years-within-weeks-former-trump-official-predicts-124526"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:17:56","slug":"cuba-could-experience-freedom-for-first-time-in-70-years-within-weeks-former-trump-official-predicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/cuba-could-experience-freedom-for-first-time-in-70-years-within-weeks-former-trump-official-predicts-124526","title":{"rendered":"Cuba could experience freedom for &#8216;first time in 70 years&#8217; within weeks, former Trump official predicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A former Trump administration official said the U.S. may be on the verge of a breakthrough in Cuba, as President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> ramps up &#8220;maximum pressure&#8221; on the island\u2019s communist regime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think where we could actually end up in the next couple of weeks is, for the first time in 70 years, we could have an opportunity for the Cuban people to actually experience freedom brought to them by Donald J. Trump,&#8221; former White House NSC chief of staff Alex Gray said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom,&#8221; Gray contrasted Trump&#8217;s &#8220;maximum pressure&#8221; approach to the policies of previous administrations he says &#8220;strengthened the regime&#8221; and lengthened its tenure for another decade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/florida-launches-probe-after-cuba-kills-4-aboard-us-flagged-speedboat-near-keys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FLORIDA LAUNCHES PROBE AFTER CUBA KILLS 4 ABOARD US-FLAGGED SPEEDBOAT NEAR KEYS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the ideal situation is that President Trump is able to do what his predecessors were not able to, which is to get Cuba to change its behavior long term and change its regime, and I think that the president is looking at the same set of facts that previous American presidents looked at, and they didn&#8217;t do anything with it,&#8221; Gray told Dana Perino.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Barack Obama looked at an opportunity in the 2010s and\u2026 he opened a U.S. Embassy there. He actually strengthened the regime and kept it on life support for another decade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/cuban-activist-trump-make-cuba-great-again-ending-communist-rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CUBAN ACTIVIST TO TRUMP: \u2018MAKE CUBA GREAT AGAIN\u2019 BY ENDING COMMUNIST RULE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gray&#8217;s remarks come amid a total power grid failure that plunged the Caribbean island into darkness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy questioned the president about the country on Monday, asking, &#8220;When you say Cuba is next, is Cuba \u2013 whatever you do with the military there, it seems like something \u2013 will that look more like Iran or Venezuela?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump replied, &#8220;I\u00a0can&#8217;t\u00a0tell you that. I can tell you that\u00a0they&#8217;re\u00a0talking to us.\u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-says-he-believes-he-has-honor-taking-cuba-calls-caribbean-island-very-weakened-nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a failed nation<\/a>. They have no money, they have no oil, they have no nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do believe\u00a0I&#8217;ll\u00a0be\u2026 having the honor of taking Cuba&#8230; That&#8217;s\u00a0a big honor,&#8221; he added later.<\/p>\n<p>Various geopolitical developments under the Trump administration have fueled speculation that Cuba&#8217;s communist regime could soon be next in the president&#8217;s playbook, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/topic\/venezuelan-political-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venezuelan dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a>&#8216;s removal from power and even more recent strikes against the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News&#8217; Greg Norman-Diamond contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/cuba-could-experience-freedom-for-first-time-70-years-within-weeks-former-trump-official-predicts\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/cuba-could-experience-freedom-for-first-time-70-years-within-weeks-former-trump-official-predicts <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Trump administration official said the U.S. may be on the verge of a breakthrough in Cuba, as President Donald Trump ramps up &#8220;maximum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-124526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cuba could experience freedom for &#039;first time in 70 years&#039; 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