Ryan EXCLUSIVE: Cuba Makes EXTRAORDINARY OFFER To Trump

TL;DR

Cuba's deputy foreign minister tells Breaking Points they are open to a holistic compensation deal with the US, including lump-sum payments, to end decades of hostility.

Key Points

• 1.Cuba is explicitly open to negotiations and a holistic deal with the Trump administration. Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Casio confirmed Cuba will accept US invitations to dialogue, despite past broken agreements, because they see no alternative to resolving bilateral issues.
• 2.Cuba's extraordinary offer includes compensation for American companies' nationalized property. Casio outlined a lump-sum agreement framework — the same model used with six other nations in the 1960s — noting all those countries were fully compensated by the mid-1980s, with the US being the sole exception due to its own refusal.
• 3.Cuba is opening large-scale foreign investment, including to Cuban-Americans and US investors. New sectors include infrastructure, highways, electricity, tourism, sugar, rum, agriculture, and big industry — a scope Casio described as genuinely new, not just rhetorical.
• 4.The Trump administration is reportedly uninterested in a deal despite Cuba's openness. The host compared the dynamic to Venezuela, where Maduro offered gold and business deals but Trump preferred regime-change tactics; two new US amphibious naval ships are also moving toward the Caribbean.
• 5.Cuba's energy crisis is severe and deliberately worsened by US policy. The Trump administration allows fuel sales to private businesses but blocks sales to public entities like hospitals; no oil has entered Cuba since approximately December, causing near-daily blackouts across Havana.
• 6.Cuba has put internal economic and political reforms 'on pause' due to US pressure. Casio admitted conditions like lack of energy and money have forced a halt on unspecified reforms that Cuba's leadership acknowledges are necessary given demographic and economic changes on the island.