Jude Weber

So they've really upped the ante with this indictment.

And so now this is just sort of the latest in a drip, drip, drip of points of pressure to try and get the

regime to bend to Trump's will.

Well, Donald Trump hasn't been terribly clear about this.

He has said over the past weeks and months that he could be looking at a friendly takeover.

He said he could take Cuba.

Now he's saying he wants to help Cuba.

And Marco Rubio, who is the Secretary of State, who's a Cuban-American himself,

He said this week as well that he was interested in a new Cuba that the US was trying to cooperate with Cuba.

So they're saying that Cuba represents a national security threat 90 miles away from Florida and they can't have this.

They just don't want a communist neighbor, I think.

I think one thing that draws an immediate parallel that I didn't mention earlier was that an aircraft carrier has just arrived in the Caribbean near to Cuba.

And if you remember in the buildup to the extraction of Nicolás Maduro in January, there was an intense military buildup in the waters around Venezuela.

And then also we saw Nicolás Maduro was indicted.

But in the case of Nicolás Maduro, he was indicted on drug trafficking charges.

So there are parallels.

But Raul Castro is 94.

He'll be 95 on June the 3rd.

It's not clear at all that the US will swoop in and try and take this man.

But then really, we don't know.