Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

Cuba is next. Then what?

Washington knows how to apply pressure. It has no theory of aftermath.

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Elise Labott
May 21, 2026
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The Trump administration has spent months methodically squeezing Cuba — cutting off its oil supply, sanctioning the military conglomerate that controls much of the island’s economy, and now indicting 94-year-old former president Raúl Castro on murder charges connected to the 1996 shootdown of two civilian planes flown by Miami-based exiles.

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