Donald Trump says U.S. can't pressure Cuba more except to "go in and tear the place apart"

President Donald Trump’s Jan. 8 comment on Cuba is presented in the article as part of a renewed U.S. economic campaign against the island. The piece says Washington has enforced an embargo since 1962 and that Trump’s administration added fuel-related restrictions and penalties on foreign firms dealing with Cuba, while keeping Havana on a U.S. terrorism list. Cuba has asked the UN General Assembly, meeting Oct. 27-28, to back a nonbinding resolution opposing the embargo. The article reports Cuba’s estimate of the embargo’s cost at a record $8.083 billion and says electricity shortages and undelivered medicine are hurting civilians; UN human rights bodies reportedly warn of risks to health care, food and water. The UN vote is symbolic but politically significant.