Trump on Cuba: “We will take care of it when we return from Iran”

- US President Donald Trump said that the United States “will take care of Cuba on its way back from Iran,” continuing to hint at the possibility of regime change on the island. At a midterm campaign rally in South Florida, Trump said Friday, repeating a claim he has made several times: “We're going to take Cuba on our way back from Iran;

They will raise their hands in surrender, and then we will send Marco Rubio to finish the job.” Trump said in May that he could do “anything” he wanted toward that poor country, and that he might have “the honor of controlling Cuba.”

On Friday, he also referred to the military operation that took place in January with the aim of arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, an operation that he had previously described as an “ideal scenario.” The electoral rally was held on Friday in the city of Fort Myers in southwest Florida, an area that includes a large number of Americans of Cuban and Latino origins. These are categories that may be decisive for the Republican Party’s hopes in the midterm elections, whether in this state or nationwide.

Opinion polls indicate that many Cuban Americans support US military action against the island. Latinos have emerged in recent years as one of the largest "swing" nonpartisan electoral groups in the United States.

If next month's results match opinion polls - which indicate a noticeable shift in the attitudes of Latino voters, numbering 36 million, towards the Democratic Party - these voters may be the ones who give Democrats control of Congress during the last two years of Trump's presidential term.