Trump and Rubio allies are vying for control of Cuba’s assets if regime falls

Washington and Florida insiders are exploring lucrative deals for a post-communist Cuba crushed by ever-increasing US sanctions Spanish hotel chains . A Canadian mining firm . European shipping giants . Visa and Mastercard .

Scores of foreign companies have been driven out of Cuba this summer over fear of being hit with potent, new secondary sanctions . Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, told Axios last month there are “no escape valves” from his unprecedented pressure campaign against the island. But not everybody is losing out. A growing cast of Washington and Florida insiders – from billionaire Trump allies and Rubio-linked lobbyists to Cuban…