From The Hill:
The newspaper reported on Monday that a push to remove Cuba’s head of state was happening as U.S. and Cuban officials are engaged in talks regarding the future of the country, citing four people familiar with the negotiations.
Rubio, a second-generation American of Cuban descent, dismissed the reporting as inaccurate in a Tuesday post on the social platform X.
“The reason so many in US media keep putting out fake stories like this one is because they continue to rely on charlatans & liars claiming to be in the know as their sources,” he wrote.
The reason so many in US media keep putting out fake stories like this one is because they continue to rely on charlatans & liars claiming to be in the know as their sources. https://t.co/mfzZbeO9UT
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) March 18, 2026
New York Times spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander responded.
“Our journalists reached out to your State Department for comment well before publication and received no disagreement with the information we were bringing to light,” Stadtlander said. “Neither you nor anyone else has presented a factual dispute to the reporting.”
“Our reporting is real, and accurate,” he concluded.
Read more at The Hill
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