Is Cuba Trump’s next target?
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:04.0 | Today, will Trump go after Cuba next? |
| 0:16.0 | For weeks now, ever since the US launched its attack on Iran, an island's 7,000 miles away |
| 0:26.9 | has been stalked by one question. |
| 0:29.9 | Are we next? |
| 0:32.4 | Because as far back as January, Cuba has been under siege. |
| 0:36.9 | The US has forced its allies, like Venezuela and Mexico, |
| 0:40.7 | to cut the country off, to starve it of oil. Schools and offices have been shut down. Fuel is |
| 0:48.5 | severely rationed. And there have been several terrifying national blackouts with very little to sustain a country of 11 million people trying to survive the harshest sanctions in its history. |
| 0:59.8 | Mothers and their babies are dying there. |
| 1:01.7 | This is war. |
| 1:03.1 | There are no bomb as fallen in Havana, but the United States is waging war against Cuba as well. |
| 1:08.2 | And there are victims to it. |
| 1:09.8 | And there are hints from Washington that much |
| 1:12.3 | worse is to come. And it may be a friendly takeover. It may not be a friendly takeover. It wouldn't matter |
| 1:18.3 | because they're really in, they're down to, as they say, fumes. |
| 1:27.7 | What does Trump want? |
| 1:29.8 | And how far is he willing to go to get it? |
| 1:33.0 | From The Guardian, I'm Noshin'Iqbal. |
| 1:36.8 | Today in focus, The View from Havana with Cuba on the brink. |
| 1:48.0 | The Cuba on the brink. Daniel Montero, you're a journalist with Belly of the Beast, which is a US-based independent |
| 1:53.5 | media outlet that is focused on Cuba and its relationship with the US. And you're currently |
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