July 28, 2026

Mabel Leon Update on Trump and Cuba

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is again taking aim at Cuba, framing Havana as a decades-long sponsor of terrorism and espionage that has helped cultivate the “radical left” in the United States. Meanwhile, President Trump is fear mongering about the prospect of communism threatening the US again. He has specifically linked Democrats to communism. Trump has further ratcheted up the US embargo against Cuba, cutting off its oil from Venezuela, seeking to crash the country while threatening an invasion. Mabel Leon, a Schenectady-based peace activist who has spent decades doing Cuban solidarity work, talks with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

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