US secretary of state\u2019s campaign of \u2018maximum pressure\u2019 is culmination of a personal pursuit spanning decades<\/p>\n
\u2022 Cubans outraged at US charges against Ra\u00fal Castro<\/a><\/p>\n Marco Rubio\u2019s moment has finally arrived. The outcome of the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to exert \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d on Cuba<\/a> may topple the 67-year-old communist government in Havana and direct the future of the US\u2019s sway over the western hemisphere.<\/p>\n For Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants who serves as both secretary of state and national security adviser, the US campaign marks his ascendancy in an administration where he has established himself as a trusted aide to Donald Trump and manoeuvred that position to advance a key goal: Washington\u2019s right to assert its authority across Latin America.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US secretary of state\u2019s campaign of \u2018maximum pressure\u2019 is culmination of a personal pursuit spanning decades \u2022 Cubans outraged at US charges against Ra\u00fal Castro Marco Rubio\u2019s moment has finally arrived. The outcome of the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to exert \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d on Cuba may topple the 67-year-old communist government in Havana and direct the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}