‘We can’t take it anymore’: How Trump is pushing Cuba to the brink

Havana, Cuba
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The Cuban man sidled up next to me on the street whispering as if he were sharing a long-held secret.

“Let the Americans come, let Trump come, it’s time to get this over with,” he said in a barely audible voice.

This is dangerous talk in Cuba — and especially at a time when a US president is threatening Cuba in a way we have not seen since the Cold War.

I looked around to see if anyone else was listening to these incendiary comments and if my cameraman, who was shooting a story with me on the ongoing transportation crisis, was nearby to record what the man – a bicycle-taxi driver – was telling me.

“We…

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