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Secretary of State Rubio Offers New U.S.-Cuba Relationship in Spanish Message

Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted a Spanish-language message on X offering a new relationship between the U.S. and Cuba. The message blamed GAESA for Cuba's economic problems and repeated an offer of $100 million in U.S. assistance.

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U.S. and Cuba. Rubio said the Cuban people are forced to survive 22 hours a day without electricity because of the GAESA conglomerate run by Cuba's armed forces and founded by former leader Raul Castro. "Cuba is controlled by GAESA," Rubio said. U.S. and Cuba, but it must be with the Cuban people and not GAESA.

To be distributed through the Catholic Church and other non-government organizations.

The Justice Department is expected later Wednesday to unseal an indictment of Raul Castro, charging him with ordering the shootdown of two Miami-based rescue planes in 1996, killing four people.

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