Noel King

And so Cuba is next on the list.

When President Trump is asked about the timing, about why now exactly, what does he say?

What does his administration say?

So there are various elements to this, right?

You know, you have the immigration element of it.

The president, you know, believed that Nicolas Maduro's regime was supporting narco-terrorism.

And that was their justification for it.

It's why they said that removing him was a law enforcement operation.

Because they believed that he is, at the end of the day,

supporting the trafficking of illegal drugs into the United States.

That was their justification.

And the reason I'm starting to answer your question about Cuba with Venezuela is because that's been the key element here.

Venezuela has been propping up the Cuban regime now for a few decades.

The states back to Hugo Chavez being in power in Venezuela and Fidel Castro still in power in Cuba.

This was just at the end of the Cold War when the Iron Curtain came down.

And Russia was trying to kind of lick its wounds and figure out its next steps.

Of course, during the Cold War, the Soviet Union was a major supporter of Cuba.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, Cuba lost its biggest benefactor.

Enter Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, who was a socialist.

Cuban-Venezuelan solidarity has been rooted in the shared vision of a united Latin America, as envisioned by Simón Bolívar and José Martí.