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Negotiating With Rodriguez Castro

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Negotiating With Rodriguez Castro

Posted on February 18, 2026 by dmartignetti

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been covertly negotiating with Raul Guillermo Rodriguez Castro, the grandson of Cuba’s aging leader Raul Castro, bypassing official channels. The Trump administration views the 94-year-old revolutionary as Cuba’s true power broker. Rubio sees potential in the younger, business-oriented Cubans and is open to rapprochement, though the U.S. stance remains that the regime must end.

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