‘This is his legacy’: Marco Rubio nears goal of toppling Cuba’s government

US secretary of state’s campaign of ‘maximum pressure’ is culmination of a personal pursuit spanning decades • Cubans outraged at US charges against Raúl Castro Marco Rubio’s moment has finally arrived. The outcome of the Trump administration’s efforts to exert “maximum pressure” on Cuba may topple the 67-year-old communist government in Havana and direct the future of the US’s sway over the western hemisphere. For Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants who serves as both secretary of state and n...

By Andrew Roth in Washington

Trump says ‘it looks like I’ll be the one’ to intervene in Cuba after Castro indictment

President Donald Trump on Thursday said past U.S. presidents have mulled intervening in Cuba for decades, but “it looks like I’ll be the one that does it.” He’d suggested the opposite a day earlier, however, saying further escalation isn’t necessary after federal prosecutors announced criminal charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro in the 1996 downing of civilian planes flown by Miami-based exiles.

By FRANCE24

Anger in Havana as Cubans flood the streets to protest Raúl Castro indictment

The pro-government demonstration, which commenced shortly after sunrise along Havana's waterfront, underscored a week of solidarity from Cuban officials rallying behind the island's revolutionary figure

By Dave Sherwood

Cubans gather before US embassy in Havana to protest Raul Castro indictment - The Straits Times

Cubans gather before US embassy in Havana to protest Raul Castro indictment  The Straits Times

The US, Raul Castro and regime change in Cuba

Charges against former president, relating to downing of two civilian planes by Cuban military in 1996, seen as aggressive escalation of tensions with Havana

By Harriet Marsden, The Week UK

Raúl Castro indictment threatens to ignite war between US and Cuba 

The U.S. Justice Department’s unsealing of a federal indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro represents far more than a delayed pursuit of legal accountability; it is an aggressive deployment of judicial diplomacy designed to shift the geopolitical equilibrium in the Florida Straits. By resurrecting a lethal 30-year-old aerial interception, the White House is signalling […]

By Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie

Cuba’s Communists Repudiate Accusations Against Raul Castro

Thousands of Cubans rallied at the Anti-imperialist tribunal in Havana on Friday morning in support of the Communist Party government. The post Cuba’s Communists Repudiate Accusations Against Raul Castro appeared first on Havana Times.

By Circles Robinson