ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Cuban-American governmental consultant and President of Central Florida Strategies Angel de la Portilla joined Scott Anez on Orlando\u2019s Morning News to discuss the ongoing political and economic crisis in Cuba.<\/p>\n
\u25b6 LISTEN TO ORLANDO\u2019S MORNING NEWS EXPRESS PODCAST ON WDBO<\/a><\/p>\n Trade between the island nation and the United States collapsed following an unofficial blockade enacted by President Trump. No foreign-originating tankers arrived in Cuba, leaving the people without supplies of oil, food, and other goods.<\/p>\n READ: Trade with Cuba collapses as Trump escalates pressure on Communist Party leadership<\/a><\/p>\n This, coupled with massive islandwide blackouts and the collapsing of Cuba\u2019s medical system due to a lack of fuel to power hospitals and ambulances, is having devastating consequences on the Cuban people.<\/p>\n READ: Islandwide blackout hits Cuba as it struggles with deepening energy crisis<\/a><\/p>\n President Trump has also announced intentions via Truth Social posts to pursue a \u201cfriendly takeover\u201d of the Cuban government, which the Associated Press reports<\/a> would likely see Cuba\u2019s President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel removed from power.<\/p>\n READ: Protest in central Cuba at local communist headquarters ends in 5 arrests<\/a><\/p>\n De la Portilla, whose parents were exiled from Cuba in the 1960s, shared his views and personal connections to the crisis.<\/p>\n \u201cFor the first time in 67 years, we\u2019re seeing some hope, some light at the end of the tunnel, where the Communist regime could fail, could exit the country at some point,\u201d said de la Portilla. \u201cHopefully it\u2019s peacefully, and change will begin in Cuba.\u201d<\/p>\n Click below to access the full podcast episode.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n \u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Cuban-American governmental consultant and President of Central Florida Strategies Angel de la Portilla joined Scott…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6029,6030,92145,147,92146,92143,92147,28,139,141,140,92144,5597],"class_list":["post-199243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-580am","tag-am580","tag-angel-de-la-portilla","tag-central-florida","tag-central-florida-strategies","tag-cuban-crisis","tag-de-la-portilla-cfs","tag-florida","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlandos-morning-news","tag-wdbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199243","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=199243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}