A Cuba on the brink of collapse peers into the vertigo of change imposed from the United States

"First came the formalization of Washington's offer of 100 million dollars to provide direct assistance to the Cuban people through the Catholic Church. An offer that Cuba's leaders initially rejected before accepting it, acknowledging that the mission undertaken with the military intervention in Venezuela in Januarycutting off the island's fuel supplyis producing its final effects."

"Then came the release of political prisoner Sissi Abascal Zamora, who immediately traveled into exile. Shortly after, confirmation that CIA Director John Ratcliffe was in Havana, evidenced by a series of photographs that forced one to look twice, arrived."

"Last was the leak to U.S. media that a federal prosecutor from southern Floridahome to an exile community that lives in anxious anticipation of any sign of Castroism's endwas preparing an uncertain legal gambit: indicting 94-year-old Raul Castro for the 1996 shootdown of two small planes belonging to Hermanos de Rescate, a humanitarian organization based in Miami. Four people were killed in that attack."

"The potential legal move would represent a new pressure measure in what appears to be Washington's strategy toward Havanasimilar to the one employed against Venezuela, or even Iran. In the rhetorical escalation from Trump and his administration, the takeover of the island is tre"

Washington offered $100 million in direct assistance to the Cuban people through the Catholic Church, initially rejected by Cuban leaders before being accepted. Cuba released political prisoner Sissi Abascal Zamora, who traveled into exile. Photographs confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe in Havana, marking an unprecedented presence in decades. U.S. media reported a federal prosecutor in southern Florida preparing a legal gambit to indict 94-year-old Raul Castro for the 1996 shootdown of two planes belonging to Hermanos de Rescate, a Miami-based humanitarian organization, killing four people. The sequence is presented as part of a broader strategy of economic and political pressure aimed at accelerating regime change.

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