Eder Peralta

Yeah, I mean, the United States seems to be pulling out all the stops to bring the Cuban government to the table.

They're showing their military muscle with the arrival of the aircraft carrier Nimitz to the Caribbean this week.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio also introduced measures targeting U.S.

resident family members of senior Cuban officials.

In one prominent case, he revoked the green card of the sister of a senior military official who oversees GAESA, and that's a Cuban military-owned conglomerate.

And

He said that the days of families of regime leaders leading lavish lives with, quote, stolen blood money are over.

Of course, the biggie was that the U.S.

brought criminal charges against Raul Castro, the former president of Cuba, and the man who is still arguably the most powerful man in the country.

The U.S.

has accused him of murder and conspiracy.

Prosecutors allege that in 1996, when Raul Castro was defense minister,

He ordered the downing of two civilian aircraft flown by the Miami-based Cuban-American group Brothers to the Rescue.

Three U.S.

citizens and a U.S.

permanent resident were killed.

Ambassador Lianis Torres Rivera started by pointing out that these planes were not merely humanitarian.

She said, and this is true, that they had been violating Cuban airspace for years.

Yeah, I think that's right.

And I think when the ambassador says we will defend Raul Castro until the end, we have to think about Venezuela.