ABC’s recent history of blaming the United States, and especially the Trump administration, and not communism for Cuba’s ongoing economic disaster continued on Saturday’s Good Morning America as reporter Alex Presha and guest co-host Rachel Scott blamed American sanctions instead. Unfortunately, this time, they were also joined by CBS Saturday Morning and White House reporter Olivia Rinaldi, who claimed the U.S. was “plunging the country into darkness.”
CIA director John Ratcliffe met Cuban officials in Havana on Thursday as a way to improve dialogue between the US and the communist-run island, the Cuban government said.
The meeting took place “in a context marked by the complexity of bilateral relations, with the aim of contributing to the political dialogue between both nations”, a statement said.
The CIA did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday.
The United States, with “America First” President Donald Trump at the helm, along with his anti-Castro Cuban-American Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has been putting the pressure on the communist regime founded in 1959 by that infamous revolutionary, Fidel Castro. In an executive order issued in May, the president deemed the island country, which is only 90 miles off the Florida Keys, an “unusual and extraordinary threat,” and the administration has been busy since slamming them with sanctions and cutting off their oil supplies.
“Mom, how long am I going to be here?” asks Jonathan Muir Burgos, a 16-year-old Cuban Christian and one of the regime’s youngest political prisoners, during early-morning phone calls from Canaleta prison in Ciego de Ávila.
In that question lies the anguish of a generation protesting blackouts, shortages, and the absence of freedom in Cuba. Jonathan’s imprisonment starkly contradicts the repeated claims by Cuba’s unelected president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, that political prisoners do not exist on the island.
The Elitist Media continue to provide aid and comfort to Cuba’s communist regime ahead of a potential action by the United States. This time, it’s Trump-deranged ABC News performing crisis communications for a brutal regime on its last legs.
Watch as correspondent Matt Rivers whitewashes the regime, hypes its May Day anti-American march, and propagates the idea that the energy embargo is the source of Cuba’s ills…
Cuba’s government has said new sanctions imposed on the island by Donald Trump amounted to “collective punishment”, as an enormous 1 May procession outside the American embassy in Havana vowed to “defend the homeland”.
In an executive order on Friday, the US president said he would impose sanctions on people involved in broad sections of the Cuban economy, as he seeks to put more pressure on Havana after ousting Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, earlier this year.
The latest sanctions constituted “collective punishment” of the nation’s people, said Cuba’s foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez. “We firmly reject the recent unilateral coercive measures adopted by the #UnitedStates government,” he posted on X in English.
It’s not a done deal but the situation in Iran appears to be heading for an off-ramp just as the situation in Cuba might be gearing up. Here’s what we know at the moment. First, U.S. officials quietly visited Cuba last Friday to directly make the case for reform.
NOW – Trump says very soon the "great strength" of the American military will create "a new dawn for Cuba." pic.twitter.com/EW3kjmaoqC
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 17, 2026
This is what communism does. This is Cuba:pic.twitter.com/fDeIEIwzA6
— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) March 21, 2026
At a CUNY-hosted conference, apologists for Cuba’s Communist regime planned street protests and discussed strategies for bypassing U.S. sanctions.
On March 14 and 15, the City University of New York hosted a U.S.–Cuba normalization conference titled “Cuba Under Siege: Strategies for Resistance and a United Response.” At the gathering, activists praised Iranian drones, touted Cuba’s intelligence apparatus, and outlined an “action plan” centered on sustained street protests.
Donald Trump’s been talking about a Cuban takeover “soon” for a couple of months now. This week, while appearing on Hannity on Fox News, Marco Rubio suggested that we’ll “have more news [on Cuba] fairly soon.”
I think prioritizing Cuba is sort of on hold until we’re finished up in Iran, but the MSM is doing its best to keep it in the headlines in the worst of ways. The goal is, as always, to make Trump, Rubio, and the United States look stupid, while making the regime look stoic and ready to progress, as if after nearly 70 years, it has seen the light. It has not. The leftists in the U.S. have some sort of gross desire to romanticize this island hellhole.
When it comes to Cuba, whose tourism has sunk due to a U.S. oil blockade, just over half of Canadians say to send aid even if the U.S. might not like it.
This according to a new Angus Reid poll that found 51% of Canadians want Canada to provide aid while 31% believe maintaining positive relations with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is more important.
The entirety of those polled was Justin and and his brother.
The Cuban government on Thursday said it would release 2,010 inmates from its prisons in a “humanitarian and sovereign gesture,” announcing a sweeping pardon as the Trump administration continues its pressure campaign to isolate the island through a de facto oil blockade.
The announcement, reported in the state-run newspaper Granma, marks one of the largest prisoner releases in the country in recent years. The government said it chose whom to pardon based on the crimes committed, “their good conduct in prison, the fact that they had served a significant portion of their sentence, and their state of health,” according to Granma.
While most Cold War cultural battlegrounds have long been paved over or turned into a theme park, Cuba has retained a place in the hearts and minds of the West’s luxury leftists.
Beautiful weather, sandy beaches, famous cigars and, of course, a long-standing enmity with the USA have all ensured the country remains perhaps the last stubborn redoubt of revolutionary, western hipsterism. So it made perfect sense that leading the charge in last weekend’s much trumpeted ‘aid flotilla’ to the island nation was the Irish language-speaking novelty rap act, Kneecap.
I thought Greta was supposed to be there too!
Cuban society, due to a U.S. naval embargo, is close to collapse.
Friends of Havana blame the U.S., but the Trump administration had to act before China turned the island into a military bastion.
America took control of Venezuela’s national oil company, PDVSA, after the January 3 raid that resulted in the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife. Then the U.S. stopped the flow of Venezuelan oil to the Cuban regime.
In Havana on Friday, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, Carlos Fernández de Cossío Domínguez, argued that Canada should maintain the commercial relationship with Cuba that has made it the country’s largest foreign investor after Spain.
“Since 1972, it has maintained the largest flow of visitors to Cuba. It is an important relationship,” said de Cossío, who once served as Cuba’s ambassador in Ottawa.
“There are important trade relations. There is foreign investment…. Despite the fact that we do not have a coincidence in all the political and international positions, we have always known how to solve our problems, our differences, and work with them based on dialogue and based on mutual respect.”
Cuba’s power grid collapsed on Saturday leaving the country without electricity for a third time in March as the communist government battles with a decaying infrastructure and a US-imposed oil blockade.
The Cuban Electric Union, which reports to the Ministry of Energy and Mines, announced a total blackout across the island without initially giving a cause for the outage.
The union later said the blackout was caused by an unexpected failure of a generating unit at the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant in Camagüey province.
BREAKING: Hasan fires back at criticism for staying in a five-star hotel during his “humanitarian aid” trip to Cuba—blames U.S. policy.
“The government makes it illegal for us to stay where we want in Cuba. We have to stay in five-star hotels.” 🤣
pic.twitter.com/h2Rj6mHE8Q— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) March 22, 2026
THE WORLD NEEDS TO SEE THIS 🇨🇺
Members of the VIP flotilla of Pablo Iglesias and Hasan Piker throw food at Cuban children to dance while they record videos for their social networks.
The man recording is saying, how disrespectful is taking advantage of the misery of the Cuban… https://t.co/hJv9T5Ae7B pic.twitter.com/QNe5dlGWCY
— Reynier de la Torre (@ReynierDeLaTor1) March 22, 2026
