DECOLONIZED JOURNALISM: Marco Rubio Accidentally Reveals the Truth About Cuba

 

 DECOLONIZED JOURNALISM: Marco Rubio Accidentally Reveals the Truth About Cuba

From: Walter Lippmann

Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent remarks to the press reveal he knows the truth about Cuba, but willingly chooses to lie

Arturo Dominguez

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the G7 Meeting in Paris, France

During remarks to the press at the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Paris, France, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was asked if his public recruitment efforts asking Cubans to reach out to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) netted any results. Unsurprisingly, he didn’t directly answer the question, for obvious reasons (it could put people at risk), but he did accidentally reveal an often overlooked truth about Cuba: Cubans aren’t interested in U.S. intervention, even today.

Rubio’s response was a long diatribe about how the “regime” is afraid to give Cubans “any kind of freedom” because he argues that the government, which provides healthcare, housing, food, and education as human rights, likes “to control” the population. While rambling about the Cuban government wanting the population dependent on it, he intentionally ignores how Cubans have had every opportunity to use the backing of the supposed most powerful military in the world to overthrow their government, yet they have openly chosen not to.

As he continued to babble repetitively (almost incoherently), he ended by admitting the truth as he attempted to portray the United States as seeking a “better future” for Cuba.

“…it will require them to wake up and realize that there is no future on the path they’re on right now, and this is a very stubborn group of people over there, but we’ll keep working on it because it’s a priority,“ Rubio said.

Rubio also admitted that what the U.S. is doing is nothing short of collective punishment against Cubans for not capitulating to decades of U.S. demands seeking the corporate takeover of the island. His comment highlights how deeply ingrained propaganda about Cuba has directed Americans’ attention away from some of the most obvious observations. The most obvious is that of Cubans prefer to choose their own path.

Additionally, by saying Cubans need to “wake up,” he essentially referred to people from one of the most educated countries on Earth as stupid, as if to say they aren’t capable of determining their own future. It’s an assertion that dates back to the colonization era that posits the “savages” couldn’t possibly know what is good for them and that only the white man knows what’s best. A brief look into the racist nature of hardliner propaganda, alongside Rubio’s recolonization pitches made around the world, shows that his statement falls right in line with imperialist and colonialist motivations.

Meanwhile, the Ibero-American Summit in Madrid, Spain, issued a declaration last week rejecting coercive measures to undermine state sovereignty and violate international law and reiterated its member states’ commitment to multilateralism under the United Nations Charter. Support for Cuba came mostly from Ibero-American member states that weren’t tied to the Trump administration, such as Mexico, which ratified its position in support of Cuba. High-level attendees, including UN Secretary-General António Guterres and European Council President António Costa, attended to show solidarity and support for bi-regional cooperation.

The Cuban government, which has been working diligently to mitigate the damage caused by U.S. policy, also sent a delegation to the World Media Summit in Beijing, China, to advocate for equitable international access to Artificial Intelligence and counter Western propaganda. Cuba then participated in the fourth China-Cuba Biotechnology Forum in Shanghai and signed three major biotech agreements covering medical innovations and the development of a joint biopharmaceutical laboratory.

While the narrative across U.S.-based media outlets is that Cuba has already fallen, we would have to ignore what’s really happening to suggest that. Corporate-owned news may not tell you the whole story, but the story they’re telling lacks context, facts, and data, which is precisely why most Americans can’t seem to wrap their heads around Cuba. Additionally, the incompetence that defines the Trump administration, this time expressed by Rubio, is telling you the reality.

That truth is simple: Cubans just want to be left alone.