{"id":15075,"date":"2026-03-10T15:43:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/?p=15075"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:43:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:43:55","slug":"marco-rubio-shares-2-powerful-words-with-american-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/?p=15075","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio Shares 2 Powerful Words with American People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s energy quarantine against Cuba is meant to bring down the communist government, which is at a breaking point in its fight for survival.<\/p>\n<p>The effects are hitting the 10 million people hard. The U.S. fuel blockade is making an economic crisis that has been going on for decades worse, making it harder to get water and making food and medicine shortages worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a number of epidemics rippling through the population right now, repression is increasing as the regime feels cornered, and they are not signaling any willingness to negotiate with the United States,\u201d said Sebasti\u00e1n Arcos, interim director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<div id=\"container-b2054b16fb6929e6018e2fb130f5261a\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThese people are really, really bad guys, and they have shown this capacity to survive difficult crises,\u201d he added. \u201cI don\u2019t think they can survive this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump on Friday suggested the U.S. could achieve a \u201cfriendly takeover\u201d of Cuba, perhaps mirroring America\u2019s approach to Venezuela, where the military took out its leaders but kept the regime largely in place while demanding greater economic cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u00a0 is in leading the administration\u2019s strategy and is said to be talking to the grandson of Ra\u00fal Castro, the 94-year-old de facto leader of the authoritarian government.<\/p>\n<p>Ra\u00fal Guillermo Rodriguez Castro, Castro\u2019s grandson, is his bodyguard and is thought to be in charge of GAESA, the conglomerate that runs Cuba\u2019s armed forces and controls a lot of the island\u2019s economy. The Miami Herald said that GAESA had about $18 billion in assets and bank accounts that were not known about in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting reportedly took place this past week on the sidelines of the regional Caribbean conference Caricom in St. Kitts and Nevis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<p>Rubio, speaking to reporters, signaled that the Trump administration is not demanding immediate regime change in Havana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCuba needs to change. It needs to change. And it doesn\u2019t have to change all at once,\u201d he told reporters Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>This comes amid the United States and Israel\u2019s campaign against Iran, which began on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\">\n<div id=\"as6124\" data-title=\"You Might Also Like\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Saturday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio notified senior congressional leaders ahead of the joint U.S. Israeli military operation against Iran. Leavitt\u2019s statement, posted to X, came as critics questioned whether President Trump authorized the strikes without the required approval from Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump monitored the situation overnight at Mar a Lago alongside members of his national security team. The President spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu by phone,\u201d Leavitt wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrior to the attacks, Secretary Rubio called all members of the gang of eight to provide congressional notification, and he was able to reach and brief seven of the eight members,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President and his national security team will continue to closely monitor the situation throughout the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt did not indicate whether Trump would return to Washington or remain at his Florida residence.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u201cGang of Eight\u201d includes the Senate and House majority and minority leaders, as well as the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) confirmed that the group had been briefed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Gang of Eight was briefed in detail earlier this week about potential military action against Iran,\u201d Johnson said, according to The Independent.<\/p>\n<p>Under the 1947 National Security Act, Congress must be kept \u201cfully informed\u201d of significant intelligence activities.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to the Harvard Kennedy School, presidents from both parties have interpreted that language to mean that notifying the \u201cGang of Eight\u201d satisfies the requirement rather than briefing the full intelligence committees.<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt\u2019s comments followed criticism from Rep. Thomas Massie, R Ky., who wrote on X, \u201cActs of war unauthorized by Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna, D Calif., had planned to force a vote next week that would restrict Trump\u2019s ability to launch strikes on Iran without formal congressional authorization.<\/p>\n<p>As the debate over war powers intensified, Rubio announced Friday that Iran had been designated a state sponsor of wrongful detention.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio said Trump signed an executive order last fall to protect U.S. nationals from wrongful detention abroad and that Congress later enacted the Countering Wrongful Detention Act of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The statement warned of further measures if Iran \u201cdoes not stop,\u201d including a potential \u201cgeographic travel restriction on the use of US passports to, through, or from Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s energy quarantine against Cuba is meant to bring down the communist government, which is at a breaking point in its fight for survival. 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