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Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday (October 23, 2026) called for Cubans to make “discreet” contact with the American intelligence services as Washington seeks to force an end to the island’s communist government.
In the latest U.S. move against the Cuban leadership, Florida’s top prosecutor this week announced an arrest warrant for former President Raúl Castro on State murder charges that echo a federal indictment unveiled earlier this year. For months, President Donald Trump and other senior U.S. officials have openly hinted at a military intervention or takeover of Cuba, ramping up economic, political and legal pressure on the country. “The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA. “Those beautiful (U.S. military) ships will pass Cuba. “They’ll raise up their hands. And then we’re going to send Marco Rubio in to finish up the deal. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez quickly dismissed Mr. Trump’s threats.
We’ll have one of them stop about 50 yards off the coast,” he said.
“To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba — now is the time,” Mr. Rubio said on social media. “Now the United States is resorting to public recruitment for the CIA,” Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio wrote on X .“There must be a great deal of desperation or misery within the agency for it to be forced to sell its services like a tube of toothpaste. Current Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has said the U.S. federal indictment against Mr. Castro has “no legal basis” and was an attempt “to justify the folly of a military aggression against Cuba.”
