President Trump escalated his threats to seize Cuba this week — raising questions about whether he might seek to topple the Communist Caribbean island's leader Miguel Díaz-Canel. The big picture: As Cuba's totalitarian government faces a deepening energy crisis that saw an island-wide blackout amid a U.

The Trump administration has indicated it will turn its attention to Cuba once military action in Iran wraps up.

Cuba's national electric grid collapsed on Monday, the country's grid operator said, leaving around 10 million people without power amid a U.S.-imposed oil blockade that has crippled the island's already obsolete generation system.

Cuba's national electric grid has collapsed leaving some 10 million people on the island nation without power and totally in the dark. The post Cuba’s Electrical Grid Collapses After Nation’s Oil Imports Dwindle first appeared on Mediaite.

US President Donald Trump mused over whether he would have the “honor of taking Cuba” on Monday, the same day the communist-run island’s electricity grid suffered its first nationwide collapse since the US effectively shut off the flow of oil to the country.

Perspective: Cuba is nearing breaking point, with its Communist system unlikely to survive in its current form.

Here’s what to know about the energy, economic, and political crises surrounding Cuba—and the role of Trump and the U.S.

US President Donald Trump says Cuba is in its “last moments of life,” predicting major political change while addressing Latin American leaders in Florida.

The Cuban immigrants sailed from the Florida Keys and wound up in a gunfight off Cuban shores. They were anti-Communist militants from fringe groups.

Trump revealed that he's personally involved in negotiations with Cuba.

U.S. President Donald Trump has ⁠offered ⁠competing narratives on Cuba: one of dialogue ⁠with the longtime rival, one of confrontation. Cubans on the streets of Havana showed a preference ​for the former on Tuesday,