Which Ethnic Billionaires Gave Trump Better Advice? New York's or Florida's?
Trump's Latin pals' demands for American assertion in the Caribbean are, so far, working better than his Jewish pals' demands for war in the Middle East or X's geostrategic geniuses' Greenland focus.
Donald Trump tends to be influenced by people in his orbit whom he respects, such as successful real estate developers in New York and in Florida. The New Yorkers tend to obsess over Israel and the Floridians over Cuba and Venezuela. (I don’t know who obsesses over Greenland other than Trump and his online fans.)
Which ones have given Trump better foreign policy advice so far?
Half a year following the U.S. kidnapping of the leftist president of Venezuela, Communism is kaput in Cuba after two-thirds of a century.
From the Miami Herald:
Cuba to privatize state companies; opens banking and energy to foreign and private capital
By Nora Gámez Torres June 19, 2026 4:00 PM
Cuba’s communist government will open key economic sectors such as banking and energy to private capital and foreign companies and begin privatizing state companies through share sales, the island’s prime minister told the National Assembly Thursday.
The measures are among the most consequential in a market-reform package that Cuban leaders have rushed to approve in an effort to remain in power amid a severe humanitarian crisis, daily protests and significant pressure from the Trump administration to modernize the country and make democratic changes.
In comments to reporters and in a speech at a Communist Party meeting this week to approve the reforms, Díaz-Canel announced some of the changes, including decentralizing the economy, granting more autonomy to state enterprises, reducing the government’s role and allowing foreign investment in the private sector.
Some of the most impactful measures announced by Cuba’s Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Thursday include allowing:
Private and foreign capital to purchase and sell fuel
The creation of private corporate banking
Private business owners to own more than one company and hire more than 100 workers
Private businesses in agriculture and tourism
Tourism property sales, evaluated case-by-case, for Cubans resident in the country and abroad
Foreign investors to hire workers directly
Foreign investment in Old Havana and other tourist spots, in state telecom ETECSA data centers, mobile networks, and other digital infrastructure
The extension of surface rights up to 99 years and leases up to 50 years for foreign investments
Real estate development in tourism
Farmland lease rights for an “indefinite period”
Wholesale and retail trade without limits by foreign entities
The sale of state assets and state companies’ shares to the private sector and foreign companies.
According to a report by Cuban state outlet Cubadebate, Marrero proposed “allowing the purchase of shares in state-owned enterprises by legal entities and individuals—both domestic and foreign—as well as authorizing the sale of state assets to these same economic actors.”
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