{"id":39049,"date":"2026-05-27T23:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/us-diplomat-cuba-is-in-a-lot-of-trouble-amid-rising-tensions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T23:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:25:26","slug":"us-diplomat-cuba-is-in-a-lot-of-trouble-amid-rising-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/us-diplomat-cuba-is-in-a-lot-of-trouble-amid-rising-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"US diplomat: Cuba is in &#8220;a lot of trouble&#8221; amid rising tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thumbs_b_c_091f7d6882b67580782221aa361b440b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has stated that Cuba is in &#8220;a lot of trouble&#8221; amid growing tensions with the US, reports Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cuba is in a lot of trouble because, unfortunately for them, it is run by a group of incompetent communists&#8221;, he emphasized during a cabinet meeting at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The country has been taken over by this company called GAESA, which basically controls 70 percent of the economy. None of that company&#8217;s money goes to help the Cuban people, none. So we&#8217;re going to talk to them, we&#8217;re going to work on it. We want something good for the Cuban people,&#8221; Rubio said, referring to Grupo de Administracion S.A. (GAESA), a business conglomerate owned by the Cuban military. Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba has faced severe fuel shortages and widespread power outages since the U.S. imposed an oil embargo on Jan. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Rubio has tried to deny the existence of the embargo, but an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on Jan. 29 clearly threatened to impose U.S. tariffs on any country &#8220;that directly or indirectly sells or supplies oil.&#8221; Cuba&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, warned against American policies towards the island. During an open high-level debate in the UN Security Council on &#8220;Preserving the goals and principles of the UN Charter and strengthening the international system centered on the UN&#8221;, he said that Washington&#8217;s actions are undermining international peace and security and constitute an &#8220;act of war&#8221; through the energy blockade.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has stated that Cuba is in &#8220;a lot of trouble&#8221; amid growing tensions with the US, reports Anadolu. &#8220;Cuba is in a lot of trouble because, unfortunately for them, it is run by a group of incompetent communists&#8221;, he emphasized during a cabinet meeting at the White House. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-39049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":9,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39051,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39049\/revisions\/39051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}