AXIOS (Marc Caputo) - "No escape:" Inside Rubio's Cuba pressure campaign
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is waging an unprecedented economic war on Cuba — and wants to make sure the island's communist leaders know it's going to get worse. - "What we're trying to teach them is, there are no escape valves," Rubio told Axios. Why it matters: Cuba's economy is in a state of slow-motion collapse because of crushing U.S. sanctions and communist mismanagement of the island, which prides itself as the hemisphere's chief foe of the superpower 90 miles to its north. - President Trump hasn't ruled out military action. Zoom in: Since last year, the Trump administration has taken two dozen separate actions to pressure Cuba. The quantity and extent of the penalties are unique: - Sanctioning 40 entities, from foreign…