Cuba 'at the end of the line,' Trump warns at Shield of the Americas Summit
USA TODAY
President Donald Trump once again warned of change coming to Cuba, adding that negotiations are occurring between the island nation and the U.S.
As President Donald Trump launched a new coalition against drug cartels alongside Latin American leaders in Florida on March 7, he also warned of potential action in Cuba, the latest mention in a growing list of comments the president has made toward the future of the island nation 90 miles from the U.S.
Trump's comments, which mentioned "great change" coming to Cuba, came as he spoke at the Shield of the Americas Summit on March 7. The daylong event aimed at discussing strategies to bolster U.S. leadership and coalition in the Western Hemisphere also hosted leaders from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, among others.
The summit also saw the announcement of the Shield of the Americas, a coalition of like-minded Latin American nations that the Trump administration says it created to combat narcotrafficking and solidify U.S. primacy in the Western Hemisphere. Trump officially launched the coalition at the all-day, invite-only summit at his Doral golf club near Miami.
Trump linked Cuba to recent U.S. action in Venezuela in the wake of the January raid by U.S. special forces that captured the country's then-leader Nicolás Maduro, hinting that the island could soon see change. Attention has been on the island for much of 2026, with Trump saying in late February there could be a "friendly takeover of Cuba" as fuel shortages squeeze Havana's authoritarian government.
"As we achieve a historic transformation in Venezuela, we're also looking forward to the great change that will soon be coming to Cuba," Trump said on March 7. "Cuba's at the end of the line, they're very much at the end of the line. They have no money. They have no oil. They have a bad philosophy; they have a bad regime that's been bad for a long time."
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