Will Washington’s Cuba campaign succeed this time?

OVER the past 16 months, the Trump administration’s Cuba policy has moved from familiar sanctions tightening into something more ambitious: an openly declared bid to topple President Miguel Diaz-Canel’s government.

The strategy is now well-documented in executive orders, US State Department designations and President Donald Trump’s own public statements.

The harder question, and the one that has received less scrutiny, is whether it is likely to work, and what “working” would actually look like.