{"id":545529,"date":"2026-03-26T02:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/545529\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T02:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:32:07","slug":"cuban-president-says-raul-castro-involved-in-us-talks-that-are-in-early-stages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/545529\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban president says Ra\u00fal Castro involved in US talks that are in early stages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"Z56RMZVF5VF4LHYVY4GXV2CN7U\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">HAVANA \u2014 Former Cuban President <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/raul-castro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ra\u00fal Castro<\/a> is involved in talks between the island and the United States, Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PYIEI4CNJNAV7DGQ54TUU2XTHA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The talks, which Diaz-Canel said are in the early stages, come at a time of increasing tensions between the two nations, with Cuba plagued by <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cuba-second-blackout-cf3905bbb8f9663c022fe1c80a5c32b8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nationwide blackouts<\/a> resulting from a crumbling power grid and an ongoing oil blockade implemented by U.S. President Donald Trump, who has threatened tariffs on any country that provides oil to Cuba. Trump recently said he\u2019d have \u201cthe honor of taking Cuba\u201d soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAVANA \u2014 Former Cuban President Ra\u00fal Castro is involved in talks between the island and the United States,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,66013,243417,1930,109,3321,793,962,3,111,3774,21,19,22,20,25,24,800,965],"class_list":["post-545529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-blockades","tag-cb-cuba-us-talks","tag-diplomacy","tag-economic-policy","tag-energy-industry","tag-general-news","tag-government-policy","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-power-outages","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}