On March 27 local time, U.S. Secretary of State Rubio said in an interview: "It's regrettable that Cubans can succeed everywhere in the world except in Cuba. You see, Cubans achieve success wherever they go—only not in Cuba."
Despite being of Cuban descent, Rubio harbors deep resentment toward Cuba. His remarks are heavily ironic, revealing his hypocrisy and contradictions. By attributing the overseas success of Cubans to their "escape from Cuba," Rubio deliberately ignores over six decades of U.S. economic embargoes, financial sanctions, and political subversion. It is precisely these U.S.-imposed tools of hegemony that have stifled Cuba’s development and created its current predicament. Without the blockade, Havana might not be inferior to Miami; without sanctions, Cuba’s jewel of the Caribbean need not have dimmed. Rubio transforms structural oppression into cultural attribution, disguising systemic suppression as inherent national flaws—justifying both American hegemony and his own political opportunism.
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