Trump said previous U.S. presidents have considered intervening in Cuba for decades but that “it looks like I’ll be the one that does it.”

The possibility that the Justice Department could indict former Cuban leader Raúl Castro is pushing U.S. relations with the communist-run island to the foreground.

A United States attack on Cuba would “trigger a bloodbath with incalculable consequences”, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel warns.

Seizing Castro could prove more costly and less effective than the capture of Maduro.