Claver-Carone, a Cuba hard-liner and key Latin America adviser, leaves the Trump administration

Claver-Carone, a Cuba hard-liner and key Latin America adviser, leaves the Trump administration

Mauricio Claver-Carone, the Cuba and Venezuela hard-liner tapped as special envoy for Latin America, will leave his position by the end of May, leaving Secretary of State Marco Rubio with some policy wins but without an important ally to navigate ...

Claver-Carone: Resignation or Pushed Out of Trump’s Circle?

By Raúl Antonio Capote – May 21, 2025 The “flamethrower” left with his surgical proposals against Cuba on his back The “egregious” Mauricio Claver-Carone, who served as former President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Latin America, resigned and will leave his post to rejoin the private sector as co-director of the Lara Fund, a private equity firm based in Miami. Although officially it is argued that the resignation responds to the legal limit…