The Cuba freeze is back on in earnest, upending Obama’s normalizing of relations in 2014 after 54 years of hostility. Trump’s slash-and-burn approach to anything his predecessor achieved has now resulted in further travel and other restrictions being slapped on. Not only is it contemptibly petty-minded, self-defeating and stupid as a policy driver, it’s downright pathological.
Cuba was given nominal independence on 20 May 1902 which gives a revolutionary Uranus opposition Pluto Mercury which sits very uncomfortably with the USA Mars in Gemini and indeed Trump’s Gemini Sun opposition Sagittarius Moon. The Cuba Mars in Taurus squares Trump’s Pluto and the Cuba late degree Taurus Sun squares Trump’s Mars – so all in all it was never going to be his favourite holiday destination.
The remainder of Trump’s term (first) look undermining for relations with tr Neptune square the Cuba Uranus and Mercury; and there are tough economic times ahead in 2022/23 with tr Pluto conjunct the Cuba Saturn.
Miguel Diaz-Carnel who took over as the first non-Castro President in decades on 19 April 2018 is seen as a continuity candidate having been deputy for some years under Raoul Castro. His term chart looks crises-strewn with an unstable, constantly-changing Sun Uranus in late Aries square Pluto with Pluto conjunct Mars and Mars conjunct Saturn – very unsettled and high-risk with the potential for violence and sharp setbacks.
Diaz-Canel was born 20 April 1960, a few months before Obama so with certain similarities, but he isn’t a good match for Trump with their relationship chart having a power-struggling, one-upmanship T Square of Sun, Jupiter, Pluto; and a suspicious, highly strung Saturn Neptune square Uranus which is being challenged strongly till the end of this year.