The day after Cuba was crippled by another 24-hour nationwide blackout, US President Donald Trump implied regime change in the country "will be just a question of time".
Standing in front of an awkward-looking Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and the other stars of the Inter Miami soccer team on Thursday, Trump told the team's owner, Cuban-born magnate Jorge Mas, that they would soon be "celebrating what's going on in Cuba", adding that the Cuban authorities "want to make a deal. So badly you have no idea".
"It's going to be an amazing day," replied Mas.
In a conversation with the broadcaster CNN on Friday, Trump said: "Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon".
He added that the island's leadership is negotiating a deal and he was "going to put Marco [Rubio] over there and we'll see how that works out".
