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 following comments from Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel that a U.S. military attack would cause a \u201cbloodbath.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u25b6 LISTEN TO ORLANDO\u2019S MORNING NEWS EXPRESS PODCAST ON WDBO<\/a><\/p>\n This comes as relations between Havana and Washington have worsened after the Trump Administration put new sanctions on the Cuban government, including the Minister of Justice and the Deputy Minister of Cuba\u2019s Revolutionary Armed Forces.<\/p>\n READ: Timeline of recent US-Cuba relations amid heightened tensions in Trump\u2019s second term<\/a><\/p>\n D\u00edaz-Canel said in a post on X that<\/a> \u201cCuba poses no threat, nor does it have aggressive plans or intentions against any country. It has none against the U.S., nor has it ever had any, something the government of that nation knows well.\u201d<\/p>\n READ: CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Raul Castro\u2019s grandson in Havana, US and Cuban officials say<\/a><\/p>\n Cuba also has been in a state of economic turmoil, as major shipping and oil companies have not been shipping to or from the island nation. An unofficial blockade enacted in March left the Cuban people without supplies of oil, food, and other goods.<\/p>\n The island has also been experiencing massive islandwide blackouts.<\/p>\n \u201cI still believe that the end of the Cuban regime will happen in 2026,\u201d de la Portilla said. \u201cI think there\u2019s a lot of economic pressure, but I also believe that the American government is trying to work out a deal with the Cuban regime so they can peacefully exit, and that will allow for change to 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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6029,6030,92145,147,118357,28,139,141,140,92144,118358,5597],"class_list":["post-277272","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-cuba-us-relations","tag-florida","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlandos-morning-news","tag-scott-anez","tag-wdbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277272","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=277272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}