{"id":195014,"date":"2026-03-17T15:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195014\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:11:08","slug":"cuban-american-in-miami-reacts-to-trump-honor-to-take-cuba-newsradio-wiod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195014\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban American in Miami Reacts to Trump, &#8220;Honor to Take Cuba&#8221; | NewsRadio WIOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Miami, FL) &#8211; The Miami Cuban community is reacting to President Trump saying he will have the &#8220;honor of taking Cuba.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Cuban born Miami radio host Ninoska Perez says she believes Trump is &#8220;honored the be the first American president to free Cuba.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She adds that his comments did not cause Cuba&#8217;s electrical grid to collapse. Perez says the Cuban regime is the problem and she cannot wait for President Trump to free the island so she can return.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba\u2019s economic czar, Oscar Pe\u0301rez-Oliva Fraga, says the island is opening the private sector to Cuban Americans something Perez is skeptical about.<\/p>\n<p>Perez blames the Cuban regime for many things, including the recent collapse of the power grid along with water and food shortages. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the White House Monday, Trump called the island less than 100 miles from Florida &#8220;a failed nation&#8221; and said &#8220;I think I can do anything I want with it.&#8221;  The president&#8217;s comments came the same day that Cuba&#8217;s national electrical grid suffered a total collapse, leaving around ten-million people without power.   <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first major blackout since the U.S. effectively shut off the flow of Venezuelan oil to Cuba. <\/p>\n<p>Sec. Marco Rubio met with the grandson of retired Cuban leader Raul Castro, two U.S. officials late last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Miami, FL) &#8211; The Miami Cuban community is reacting to President Trump saying he will have the &#8220;honor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[502,83979,90541,225,227,226,90540,2684],"class_list":["post-195014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-community","tag-cuban","tag-free-cuba","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-ninoska-perez","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}