Rubio Tightens “Noose” Around Cubans’ Necks

Marco Rubio is slowly choking Cuba to death. The Secretary of State told Axios his plan to take over the island—long plagued by U.S. intelligence agency meddling and extensive federal sanctions—for good. “What we’re trying to teach them is there are no escape valves … Every time they create a new mechanism in which they try to get out of the noose, we just close it off,” Rubio said. “They certainly can’t wait us out. Certainly this isn’t going to go away for the next 2½ years.” The Trump…