CUBA "AT DEATHS DOOR"... Regime IMPLODES as Trump Blockades Island, Communists STARVE

Will you make a public commitment today to rule out US regime change in Cuba?

Regime change? Yes. Oh no, I think we would love to see the regime change. We would like to see- that doesn't mean that we're gonna make a change, but we would love to see a change.

So, as a US blockade puts the brakes on communist Cuba's plans to continue exploiting its own people, the writing is on the wall. Because without fuel and electricity, the despots running this island prison are calculating their chances of survival, not in years or months, but in just days and weeks as their regime grinds to a halt. While they find themselves surrounded and isolated with zero chance of escape.

Rubbish on the streets, bikes to get around, power only by torchlight. This, the state of Cuba desperately running out of oil supplies because it's reliant on Venezuela for fuel and the US blocking imports of oil from there threatens to grind this

island to a halt. They cut the electricity here every day, leaving us without power for four, five, six hours.

Ordinary Cubans are struggling to adapt. Vehicle owners are limited to 20 litres of petrol, purchased through an app with long wait times.

What does taking away Venezuelan oil mean for the country of Cuba?

A total collapse.

When you are short diesel, now you're talking about transport. You're talking about diesel for the tractors and agricultures.

Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel says he's ready for talks without US pressure or preconditions. Mexico, China, Russia, all calling for resolution through dialogue.

Cuba is right now a failed nation. They don't even have jet fuel to get for airplanes to take off. They're clogging up their runway. We're talking to Cuba right now. They should absolutely make a deal because it's a humanitarian threat.

So this right here tells you everything you need to know about those who want to see Cuba's regime survive. And what nobody's talking about is this regime right here. It continues to be a threat to its own people as well as the rest of the world because it's a puppet state for America's enemies like Russia who for years have used this tiny little island off the coast of Florida as a base to threaten our

entire hemisphere. Something the Soviets can only do if they prop up the criminals running this island by importing fuel and supplies and everything else, which is nearly impossible as the Trump administration continues capturing these dark fleet tankers while simultaneously offering Venezuelan and US oil in exchange for regime change. And the fall of Cuba, which is literally days away, is going to be absolute nightmare news for Russia because with Venezuela gone and Iran out of the picture, this was the last place that gave them a foothold in our hemisphere.

And it's the last piece of the sanctions evading machine these regimes all helped establish. But the good news is that with peace coming to South America in a way the world never envisioned, the gears of freedom and capitalism are in a position to once again bring people out of poverty the second the regime in Cuba disappears. Which is all but assured now that their nearby lifelines,

like a formerly communist Venezuela, are gone. Which brings us to the real reason this island dictatorship is steps away from collapse. It is impossible for a foreign adversary like Russia on the other side of the globe to supply this place with everything it needs and prop it up from that far away.

It's just not going to happen. And Cuba was staying afloat because of imports from Mexico and Venezuela. And since those are no longer coming in, the regime here is doomed. And once it collapses and its people are freed, not only will prosperity march through the streets of Havana for the first time in decades, but the anti-Western access of cartel-friendly criminal countries

teaming up to evade US sanctions and spread mayhem while being backed by China and Russia is gonna disappear. But now the question is how bad are things in Cuba right now and can their government avert what many say is an impending implosion?

Playing dominoes by torchlight. This is how one Cuban family passes the time during a blackout. Power cuts like this are happening more and more frequently due to the country's fuel shortage.

They cut the electricity here every day, leaving us without power for four, five, six hours.

That's crazy.

Since Donald Trump removed Venezuela's leftist leader, Nicolas Maduro, in January, the US has prevented Caracas from supplying oil to Cuba and threatened to impose sanctions on any country that does.

This is incredibly tragic that average people who don't run the communist Cuban government have to go through this, but everything we're seeing on the screen here, it is not the fault of the United States whatsoever. No, instead it is the fault of an economic system that does not allow the common man to pull himself up out of poverty. This is communism 101.

That is to blame for everything we're seeing here. And this is the communist playbook, what the regime here is doing. Is it is holding out its people as hostages in front of the entire world, subjecting them to a humanitarian crisis so that they can maintain their power. Is this a human rights nightmare? Absolutely. But it's been going on for decades.

This is not a new phenomenon in Cuba whatsoever. And Cuba hasn't ground to a halt recently because of Donald Trump. No, that happened decades ago when it stopped being free, and that's why the cars are so old. This whole place shows the signs of being stuck in the past with absolutely no future the longer this regime stays in power. And to understand how these regimes use their own people as a bargaining chip, so to speak,

the second oil and fuel flow back into this country, things are gonna power up again, life's gonna get a little bit better for people who still have no freedom and are ultimately still oppressed, and the regime is going to stay in power.

At least that's how things have worked for a long time,

but as you're about to see that could soon change. With fuel dwindling in Cuba, the United Nations says the country is facing a potential humanitarian collapse. And today Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel says he's ready to speak with President Trump. Cuba is willing to engage in dialogue with the United States on any topic, but without pressure or preconditions and always respecting Cuba's sovereignty and independence. White House Press Secretary Carolyn Leavitt was asked about the Cuban leader's remarks.

The fact that the Cuban government is on its last leg and its country is about to collapse, they should be wise in their statements directed towards the president of the United States. But as I just reiterated, the president is always willing to engage in diplomacy. And I believe that's something that is taking place, in fact, with the Cuban government.

So the interesting thing about the Cuban government is they say they wanna have talks with the United States without any conditions or impacts on their sovereignty. They are sovereign, they are independent. But as an island communist prison nation, they have been wholly dependent on external support the entire time this regime has been in power. You see, they can't support themselves. They're collapsing.

Venezuela, the same thing happened. Venezuela collapsed under the same type of government, couldn't pump its own oil out of the ground, which it's got more of than any other country on earth, and enrich itself and its own people at the exact same time. Cuba's got the exact same problem. They need external help, which is why the Soviets and now the Russians have just been

so happy to help them out and why Venezuela was helping them out. You see, you had a whole regime support apparatus going on here, which kept places like Cuba and Venezuela and Iran alive. And the idea that the Cuban government is going to come to some talk with leverage, what leverage do they have over the United States? Their oil was coming from Venezuela.

A lot of their imports were coming from Mexico. Mexico has cut them off. And the Venezuelan oil imports, well, those might come back, but look at this, if they do come back, who's going to be controlling them? Oh, look at that, the United States is going to be controlling those oil imports. And when Venezuela's where you get your oil, you get Venezuelan corruption and Russian influence with that oil and that gasoline.

But when the US has to do it, that's not going to come with the power anymore, is it? No, this oil, you better believe this is gonna come with conditions for a peaceful transfer of power, which is something nobody ever thought was ever gonna be on the table.

The administration threatened to impose additional tariffs on any country that supplies oil to Cuba. President Trump addressing the crisis there earlier this week.

Energy diplomacy.

It's a failed nation now, and they're not getting any money from Venezuela.

Today, Congressman Carlos Jimenez urging airline CEOs to end flights to Cuba.

This regime is totally isolated. If there's no flights, because when the planes fly in, they can't get off the runway because there's no fuel to get them off the runway. The writing is on the wall. This is not going to last for very long. And critics of this are going to say, well, the Trump administration is just bullying poor Cuba.

Cuba's a great place. They've got free health care. They've got better hospitals than we have in America. We hear this stuff all the time. But the reality is Cuba oppresses its people. And it was doing it with the help of countries like Venezuela and Mexico who were propping up these dictators. And according to Amnesty International, Cuba flunks the human rights checklist here. Freedom of expression is severely limited.

Authorities label activists and journalists as common criminals, mercenaries, and foreign agents. That's what you are if you're a journalist in Cuba. And you know what happens to foreign agents in Cuba? Yeah, they get locked up and they don't have due process over there.

They have a process, but it ain't due. Arbitrary arrests and detentions. They've subjected artists, intellectuals and other critical voices to arbitrary detention, including in their homes with serious implications for their privacy and right to freedom of movement.

That's not a free society. This is a society that is collapsing and the only reason it can't rise up is because it's an island, which is hard to escape from. It's hard for people there to get external support of any kind and people are in trouble economically. They don't have the ability to do anything other than try to get food for tomorrow. And they're already living in a crushed economy that's stuck 50 years in the past.

This place ground to a halt years ago and now it is on its last legs.

To Dr. Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat with the assembly of the Cuban resistance.

The oil embargo placed on the US on the Castro regime is the only way to force that regime to restore rights and freedoms to the Cuban people.

Yeah. And to cease repression.

While Dr. Gutierrez-Boronat says a conversation between the two nations may not immediately lead to change in Cuba, he believes a breakthrough is coming.

I think what can work is using international pressure, using economic pressure, using support for the Cuban people to try and drive a wedge between factions within that regime to bring about real change. And I think it's the closest we've ever

been. So, interesting statement here. He says that without this oil, the Cuban regime cannot survive. And that means because they've had oil and because they've had external support, because they cannot support themselves, they have been allowed to survive for decades. Think about that. The world has stood idly by while this regime propped itself up, harmed its people, impoverished them, stole their future. And now there's talk that, oh, Trump is somehow not doing the right thing by going in here and effecting regime change. This is a good thing for the people of Cuba. They shouldn't be living in a place

where they don't have any human rights and where they can never have a future because their government has chosen despotic communism. Researcher at the University of Texas tells ABC News, Cuba's economic collapse is imminent.

We don't see a light at the end of this tunnel.

What does taking away Venezuelan oil mean for the country of Cuba?

A total collapse.

When you are short diesel, now you're talking about transport. You're talking about diesel for the tractors and agricultures. Now this really impacts the economy of the country.

Yep, sure does. And here's the other problem. There's no way for any other country to supply Cuba with the amount of oil that it needs in a cost-effective manner. Venezuela's right there.

For years, these two dictatorships were just a match made in hell together, supporting each other. Venezuela was shipping its oil over to Cuba. Cuba was sending security forces over to Venezuela to help run that Maduro regime

and oppress the Venezuelan people. So this was their tit for tat that kept these guys afloat. And since the oil was coming from so close, it was very cheap, it was very plentiful. But if you're going to try to truck that around the globe from a place like Iran with the help of Russian oil tankers, it's just not going to happen. And those tankers, when they come over, they're getting chased away. They're getting seized. That oil is getting redirected to the US Strategic Reserve. This is not a plan that can keep this place afloat. The only way it can survive is with the Venezuelan oil that it used to have, which is now controlled by the US.

Crisis. The Cuban government is implementing a four-day work week and restricting fuel sales. Ordinary Cubans are struggling to adapt. Vehicle owners are limited to 20 litres of petrol, purchased through an app with long wait times. Alexander Diaz is a taxi driver, but without fuel for his car, he's had to find work elsewhere.

I had to park the motorcycle, park the car, take a bicycle and work in construction. It had been a long time since I worked in construction.

Street vendor... Now there's gonna be people that see this and say that this is all Trump's fault but you got to ask yourself something. Why is it that this government can't support itself? Why is it 100% reliant on external forces to keep itself going? Why does it have no economy? Is that the fault of a president that just came into office two years ago or is that the fault of an economic system called communism that

has brought poverty to every single country that has tried it? There has never been a communist country where the people of that country and the government experienced bountiful plenty that overflowed and allowed them to feed themselves and the rest of the world. That's not ever happened in world history and we're seeing it right here on the streets of Cuba.

These people are suffering. They're not suffering because of somebody that's been president for a year and a half. Instead they're suffering because they don't have rights. They can't produce anything. They have no economy. They cannot do things to benefit

their own lives whatsoever. And if they speak out against that, they go to prison. supplies stop coming, the town is really going to be in need. This latest fuel shortage is aggravating an already difficult situation in the communist country. Cuba has faced a US trade embargo since 1962 and has for years dealt with power cuts and shortages of fuel, medicine and food.

So they've had shortages for decades and it's not like nobody was allowed to do anything with Cuba. Mexico was trading with Cuba, Venezuela, a whole bunch of countries, Russia, China, you name it. It's just the US wasn't doing anything with Cuba. It's not that the United States had some responsibility to keep Cuba afloat. No, if Cuba is a sovereign nation, as their leader says, and if they want to come to the

negotiating table without any preconceived conditions, and they want to be respected and not be dependent on anybody, well, that's impossible because they're totally dependent. They always have been. And the sad thing is that the only thing worth exporting that this communist government could come up with was to send its own corruption to Venezuela in exchange for fuel and gasoline so that the place wouldn't just be a rock floating in the

ocean. So that there would actually be an economy and some sort of infrastructure there, none of which is sufficient at all to benefit the lives of these people who've been struggling.

Immigrated to the US in the 1950s, settling in Miami, the beating heart of the Cuban exile community and decidedly anti-communist. The fate of Cuba is deeply personal to Rubio, who rejects the idea that the US embargo

was the cause of the island's economic malaise.

We would like to see the regime never change. The suffering in the rural areas of Cuba are acute and they're deep, and it's not because of the embargo, it's because they don't know how to run an economy.

Right.

Do you see Rubio's hand guiding a lot of these actions? We have a very unpredictable president. And while Rubio may have a very coherent perspective on Cuba, we don't know how that unfolds. I think that the regime in its current form without any outside aid.

Right. They need outside aid. And look who they're getting it from. They're not getting it from countries that have become allies of the United States at all. No, and the other thing that's very interesting about this is you have Cuba and you have Florida, which is very close, where you have a massive Cuban population.

And the people in Florida who are Cuban Americans are thriving. The people in Cuba are not thriving. You've got the same people. One is succeeding wildly, the other's living in abject poverty. What does that tell you? It has nothing to do with the United States embargo. It's not the US's job to keep Cuba afloat. Cuba's been doing what it can to keep itself afloat, teaming up with America's enemies to do that while its people stay oppressed. It's the system of this country that has run it into the ground. It's on its last legs. It's been

there for a long time. And the good news is with Venezuela's dictatorship out of the picture, perhaps freedom could come to Havana too in the near future. Wouldn't that be awesome? perhaps freedom could come to Havana too in the near future. Wouldn't that be awesome? I happen to think so. What do you think? I'll see you in the next video.