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White House official: Trump has revealed that a US-Cuba agreement can be easily reached
2026-03-13 19:10:31 / BOTA
Donald Trump has said the US is talking to Cuba, its leaders need to agree to a deal and that could be done easily, a White House official said on Friday, echoing the US president's previous comments after Havana confirmed negotiations were underway.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said earlier that his government had opened talks with Washington, as an oil blockade imposed by Trump pushes the communist-run nation deeper into economic crisis.
"As the President stated, we are talking to Cuba, whose leaders need to reach an agreement, which he believes 'would be very easily achieved,'" the White House official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Diaz-Canel said in a video broadcast on state television that the negotiations "aimed at finding solutions through dialogue for the bilateral disputes that we have between the two nations."
Since the US seized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in January, removing Cuba's most important foreign benefactor, Trump has cut off Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba and threatened to impose tariffs on any country that sells oil to Cuba.
On Monday, Trump said Cuba could be subject to a "friendly takeover," and then added, "it might not be a friendly takeover."
The citizens of this Caribbean country, exhausted by years of economic crisis and shortages, now live most of their days without electricity, strictly rationed fuel and shortages of medicine.
"Cuba is a failed nation whose rulers have suffered a major setback with the loss of support from Venezuela and the interruption of oil shipments from Mexico," the White House official said.
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