How to destabilize Cuba

An American can get around that by going through a third country. That is very important to the sex-tourism biz, for which all good Litsters should show a tender concern.

But it's not so easy for a Cuban who wants to visit America.

Of course, we could make removal of any such obstacles, by EITHER government, a condition of normalization.

yeah i think americans who do travel to cuba take the longer flights and routes
 
Nobody has yet stated any reason why normalizing relations would not have the effects described in the OP, nor any other reason why it would not be a good idea.
 
Mexico becomes crucial fuel supplier to Cuba but pledges no extra shipments after Maduro toppled

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-c...mp-venezuela-7ec85826c98f23226c2534954b2c2b6f

MEXICO CITY (AP) — As the United States prepares to seize control of Venezuelan oil and the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump hardens its stance toward Cuba, Mexico has emerged as a key fuel supplier to Havana.

It’s a role that could further complicate already strained relations with the Trump administration, even though the Mexican government insists that exports to the island have not increased.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum acknowledged on Wednesday that “with the current situation in Venezuela, Mexico has become an important supplier” of crude oil to Cuba, but asserted that “no more oil is being sent than has been sent historically; there is no specific shipment.”

She added that those shipments are made via “contracts” or as “humanitarian aid,” but offered no concrete figures on the number of barrels exported.
 
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/...rs-grow-of-economic-collapse-in-cuba-00714716
‘People would attempt to flee’: Concern grows over possible Cuba collapse
The Trump administration is expressing confidence Cuba will fall, but there are concerns the US doesn’t have a plan.

An economic collapse in Cuba, just 90 miles from Florida’s shores, could bring with it stark consequences for the United States, given the high risk of human suffering over lack of food, energy and other resources that could drive mass migration, according to five former U.S. officials who worked on Latin America policy.

And while the Trump administration believes Cuba will fail in the wake of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s capture, there is concern that the U.S. doesn’t have a plan to manage the fallout.

With the Trump administration exerting control over Venezuela, Cuba has lost one of its principal economic patrons and oil suppliers. The island, already in economic dire straits, will face even deeper financial problems unless it finds another government willing to provide it with the oil it once received from Venezuela — the import of which until a week ago it exchanged for money and personnel. Cuba has dodged collapse for decades but Maduro’s capture poses perhaps the greatest threat to the regime since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

And a failed state could lead to an exodus of Cubans looking for refuge in the United States.

“If history is any indication, there would be mass migration, people would attempt to flee,” said Jeffrey DeLaurentis, the former charge d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Cuba during the Obama and first Trump administrations. “All we have to do is look at the island over the last three or four years.”

That concern has been “an argument against bringing the state down in the absence of something to replace it, because where do the people go?” said Ricardo Zúñiga, one of the architects of the Obama administration’s efforts to reopen relations with Cuba.
 
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