President Donald Trump indicated on May 21 that he planned to intervene in Cuba following the indictment of former communist revolutionary leader Raúl Castro as the United States continues to put economic pressure on the Cuban regime.
Trump said the Caribbean nation was a “failed country” when taking questions during a press conference at the Oval Office.
“Other presidents have looked at this for 50, 60 years doing something, and it looks like I’ll be the one that does it,” Trump said.
The president’s statement comes at a time when the United States has escalated pressure on the communist regime that controls the island of about 10 million people just 90 miles south of the Florida Keys….