file charges to legalize captures

With these accusations and a million-dollar reward offered for information that would facilitate his arrest, Washington obtained legal support for the operation that led to the international capture of the Venezuelan leader on January 3.

With this model in mind, the Department of Justice would have formed a working groupwhich includes officials from government agencies, including the Treasury Department, to examine Possible federal charges against members of the Cuban Government.

This effort to bring charges against Cuban officials coincides with Trump’s repeated statements in the last week that The Cuban regime will be the next to fall after the capture of Maduro and the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last Saturday in Tehran.

The last time this Friday when, in a telephone conversation with CNN, the Republican assured that The Cuban Government will fall “very soon” and reiterated that Havana is “very eager” to negotiate with Washington.

Trump insisted that The island’s communist regime would be the next target after a “successful” campaign in the Middle East, which this Friday reached its seventh day and in whose initial attacks Khamenei, and a large part of his leadership, died.

“Cuba is going to fall very soon, by the way, without any relation, but Cuba is also going to fall. They really want to reach an agreement,” he told the American media in a brief telephone conversation.

A possible agreement

According to the US president, the Cubans “want to reach an agreement” and to negotiate, Trump has appointed his Secretary of State, the Cuban-American Marco Rubio. “We’ll see how it goes. Right now we are very focused on this – Iran,” he added.

“We have plenty of time, but Cuba is ready, after 50 years. I have been watching it for 50 years”he indicated.

A day earlier, the Republican warned that Havana is “desperate” to reach an agreement with his Administration immediately and assured that “it is only a matter of time” before they turn their sights towards the Caribbean country, implying that the military campaign against Iran has somewhat diverted the focus of the White House.

He also said this Thursday, in an interview with Politico, that the fall of Cuba would be “the icing on the cake” after the operation last January in which the US captured the now deposed former president Nicolás Maduro, Havana’s closest ally.

Trump has given as an example the “wonderful” collaboration with the interim government of Chavista Delcy Rodríguezwith which Washington announced this Thursday that it will reestablish relations after decades of estrangement.

In recent weeks, US media have reported on contacts between the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and a grandson of former Cuban President Raúl Castro, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro.

They would be contacts rather than negotiations, and the talks would revolve around possible and future gradual economic reforms on the island and a phased withdrawal of Washington’s sanctions.

Cuba suffers a acute energy crisis from mid-2024, but in recent weeks it has worsened as a result of the US oil siege. In the last year and a half, there have been five national blackouts and several partial ones.