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An islandwide blackout hit Cuba on Monday as the country’s fuel reserves dwindle and its electric grid continues to crumble.

When CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Havana last week for a rare meeting with senior Cuban officials, he brought along one of the operators involved in the U.S. mission to capture the then-Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro earlier this year, multiple people familiar with the matter told CBS News.

The Justice Department is expected to unveil the criminal charges against Cuba’s former leader Raúl Castro on Wednesday, sources familiar with the investigation told CBS News.

The Justice Department is advocating for the indictment of 94-year-old Raúl Castro, the former president of Cuba, as per two U.S. officials familiar with the situation.

As President Trump issues threats against Cuba, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates stated that the greatest risk the Communist-ruled island presents to the U.S. is its potential collapse and the resulting migration crisis to the U.S.

The United States has offered $100 million in aid to Cuba following a major failure in the island nation’s national energy grid early Thursday, which cut off power to the eastern provinces. Cuba’s leaders have stated they would accept the aid as long as it adheres to "universally recognized practices for humanitarian assistance."

Only eight days after reentering the White House last year, President Trump revealed plans to transform the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into a large detention center designed to accommodate 30,000 detainees facing deportation as part of his stringent efforts to curb illegal immigration.

President Trump is escalating pressure on Cuba’s government, raising fears that his persistent threats to invade the Caribbean island might be realized.

Federal prosecutors are attempting to revoke former U.S. diplomat Victor Manuel Rocha’s American citizenship, claiming he fraudulently acquired naturalization decades ago while covertly serving as an agent for Cuba.

President Trump signed an executive order on Friday intensifying U.S. sanctions on Cuba, increasing penalties on the island’s government and foreign companies that conduct business with it.

On Tuesday, Senate Republicans dismissed a legislative proposal from Democrats that would have mandated President Donald Trump to terminate the U.S. energy blockade on Cuba without obtaining approval from Congress.

The administration of President Donald Trump took the unusual action this week of sending a government plane to Cuba to bring back a 10-year-old from Utah who is involved in a complex and controversial custody battle concerning the child’s gender identity.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel disclosed that his island nation is preparing for an attack from the US and stated that he is ready to die resisting President Trump.

The US has dispatched FBI agents to Cuba to investigate the Florida-flagged speedboat incident that led to five deaths in February, following Cuban government claims that it was attempting to infiltrate the island.

A Russian-flagged oil tanker has entered Cuban waters after US President Donald Trump permitted it to bypass his administration’s fuel blockade on the island nation, as its energy crisis intensifies.

Tensions and conflict are escalating in Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba. However, on Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio found himself far from the international conflicts and instead in a Miami courtroom.

Costa Rica closed its embassy in Havana on Wednesday and instructed Cuba’s communist government to withdraw its diplomats from San José.

Two tankers transporting Russian petroleum products are en route to Cuba, with one nearing the area of a U.S. naval blockade in the Caribbean.

Donald Trump vowed to "take" Cuba on Monday as a US oil embargo left the island without power, deepened shortages, and fueled growing anti-government protests.

The Trump administration is arranging an economic agreement with Cuba that could be announced shortly, according to two sources familiar with the administration’s plans.

President Donald Trump stated on Saturday that the United States and Latin American countries are joining forces to fight violent cartels, as his administration seeks to show its ongoing commitment to refining U.S. foreign policy focus on the Western Hemisphere, even while addressing critical emergencies worldwide.

President Donald Trump is on the offensive: In an interview on Thursday, he downplayed concerns about the Iran war, told POLITICO that the United States would assist in selecting Iran’s next leader, predicted the collapse of the Cuban regime, and criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the tech giant Anthropic.

Cuba has pledged to protect itself against any "terrorist and mercenary aggression," following an incident where border guards reported that they had killed four exiles on a Florida-registered speedboat that fired upon a patrol.

The Cuban Embassy said Wednesday night that four passengers of a Florida-registered speedboat, who were killed by Cuban border guards, were all born in the Communist island nation but resided in the US.