GOP officials: ‘All signs point’ to end of communist Cuba soon

Republican officials believe President Donald Trump is close to “freeing the people of Cuba,” as whistleblowers claimed the Trump administration eyes regime change in Cuba by the end of 2026.

The administration has allegedly been in search of Cuban insiders who can help execute a regime change on the island, The Wall Street Journal recently reported.

“All signs point to that [end to the communist regime],” Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., told The Daily Signal.

“Cuba is at its lowest point in 65 years,” Gimenez, a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security and the House Committee on Armed Services, continued. “Cuba is collapsing under its own incompetence, under its own weight.”

“They [Cuban regime] should be sleeping with their pajamas on,” Kevin Cooper, chairman of the largest Republican county in the country, the Miami-Dade GOP, told The Daily Signal. “It is time to bring freedom to the people of Cuba. I think it’s expected to happen at this time. People want it to happen.”

The news of the potential fall of the Cuban regime comes after Operation Absolute Resolve, which captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Maduro was a key ally of the Cuban regime, and some say the operation should serve as a warning to the Cuban regime.

Unlike Obama administration officials who described that overthrowing the Cuban regime was “tougher than cracking a nut,” and President Robert F. Kennedy, who failed to topple Cuba during the Bay of Pigs invasion, Republican leaders remain optimistic that Trump’s administration could finally get the job done.

“President Trump is the president of peace, and if anyone can do it, it is him,” Cooper said.

Full Support From the Cuban-American Community

A majority of the 2.4 million Cuban Americans in the United States oppose the island’s communist regime and want to see an end to nearly seven decades of dictatorship.

Florida state Rep. David Borrero, a prominent voice against communism, said he “absolutely supports the Trump Administration in toppling the regime, which has been accused of egregious human rights violations.”

Last year, Borrero’s Victims of Communism Law, which mandates schools to teach Florida students about the horrors of communism, was signed into Florida law.

Gimenez, an immigrant from Cuba, told The Daily Signal that he’s been looking forward to the fall of the Cuban regime. “I’ve been looking forward to that day for a very long time. I came over when I was seven years old. The Cuban people also look forward to that day,” Gimenez said.

Cooper said for many Cuban Americans, it’s very personal.

“I’ve met people with one eye, one arm, who have spent time in Cuban gulags, and trust me, there is nothing good about communism,” Cooper said. “Those who don’t think communism kills can come to South Florida, and I’d be happy to introduce them to some people.”

Could Cuba-US Relations Improve?

Cuba’s regime has historically been receptive of American adversaries, such as China and Russia.

A new regime in Cuba, these GOP officials claim, would be friendlier to the United States.

“We can convert Cuba from an adversary to a friend of the United States, and it will happen,” Gimenez added. “This hemisphere will be a hemisphere of Democracy and of freedom, and not a hemisphere of dictators, narco-terrorists, and communist.

Borrero said that Cuba “has tremendous strategic importance from the national security perspective. With Cuba being only 100 miles away from Florida, it’s a key strategic position.”

“If the U.S. were to have an ally in the next leadership in Cuba, it would certainly make us safer,” Borrero added.

Could Cuba Have a Bright Economic Future?

The fall of the Cuban regime could have a positive impact on the U.S. and Cuban economies, these GOP officials suggest, which might serve as an incentive for Trump to act.

Cuba “has tremendous potential for having a very thriving economy, and with that, by extension, trade with the United States,” Borrero said. “I’m sure the hardworking Cuban spirit would turn the country into a thriving economy again, and allow us to trade with them, and both of our countries will prosper from it.”

Before communism took hold of Cuba in 1959, the island was home to a thriving economy with dominance in key agricultural industries such as sugar and coffee. In contrast, the Cuban people now earn less than $8 a month.

“The Cuban people are some of the most entrepreneurial in terms of creativity and development. The opportunities really are endless, for both us and for them,” Cooper added. “If that were to happen, the Western Hemisphere would freely do business with each other for the first time in history.”

[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by The Daily Signal.]