Cuba Tried To Send Secret Letter To Trump Warning It Is Preparing For Us Military Action: Report

Fidel Castro’s grand-nephew tried to present a concealed missive to Donald Trump informing that Cuba was preparing for a imaginable US incursion, according to a report.

Raúl Rodríguez Castro, nan grandson and adjutant of Cuba’s erstwhile leader Raul Castro, gave a missive to a businessman successful Havana successful nan dream that it would scope nan White House, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a US official.

The missive was formatted for illustration a negotiated statement and was emblazoned pinch an charismatic Cuban seal. It projected economical and finance agreements arsenic good arsenic sanctions alleviation for Cuba.

Roberto Carlos Chamizo González, 37, a Cuban businessman progressive successful private, high-end car rentals and luxury tourism who was tasked pinch delivering nan letter, was sent backmost to Havana by an supplier of Miami’s Customs and Border Protection, who obtained nan letter.

The missive followed a bid of remarks by nan US president indicating he is preparing for a subject cognition successful Cuba.

Two sources acquainted pinch nan matter told USA Today connected Wednesday that contingency plans are being developed successful lawsuit President Donald Trump orders an involution connected nan land nation.

Trump has not announced plans to invade Cuba, but has antecedently floated nan idea, stating past period that he would person nan “honour of taking Cuba” and will “do thing I want pinch it”.

Sources besides told Zeteo earlier this week that nan Pentagon was fixed a directive consecutive from nan White House to hole for imaginable subject action successful nan Caribbean.

The White House did not reply questions from nan WSJ astir whether it had received nan letter, and it is unclear why nan courier was stopped astatine nan airport. The Independent has contacted nan White House for further comment.

The missive marks a astonishing effort to unfastened discussions betwixt Havana and Washington, seeking to woo Trump pinch an economical woody which leaves astir of nan authorities successful place, akin to his solution successful Venezuela.

“The Cubans look to beryllium attempting to circumvent [secretary of authorities Marco] Rubio and get a clear connection straight to Trump,” said Peter Kornbluh, 1 of nan authors of ‘Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana’, told nan WSJ.

“This effort suggests that they nary longer spot Rubio to beryllium a dispassionate interlocutor and want to entreaty straight to nan president to resoluteness nan escalating crisis.”