Speculation about what's next for Havana comes as the U.S. continues to attack Iran and shortly after Trump ordered U.S. forces to depose Venezuela's president.

Mike Hammer, a career U.S. ambassador and currently the highest diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, said he believes a change in government in Cuba will happen this year, adding to the string of voices predicting regime change on the island.

Swaths of Cuba remain without power nearly a day after a massive blackout hit the western part of the island in the latest outage blamed on a fragile

US President Donald Trump says that “Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon” in a renewed threat to the communist-ruled island already facing a US energy blockade. “They want to make a deal so badly,” Trump tells CNN in an interview a day after suggesting that he would turn to an unspecified project for Cuba after the war against Iran.

America’s pressure campaign on Cuba is pushing the country to the breaking point, with President Trump and Republicans in Congress predicting the communist regime’s imminent fall. A major blackout across the western half of Cuba on Wednesday underscored the energy crisis exacerbated by Trump’s fuel blockade.

Air France says it will temporarily suspend flights between Paris and Havana for several weeks, citing Cuba’s fuel shortage.

HAVANA (AP) — Swaths of Cuba remained without power on Thursday nearly a day after a huge blackout hit the western part of the island in the latest outage blamed on a fragile electric grid and a lack of fuel.

A power outage struck most of Cuba including Havana, the state electric utility said on Wednesday, as the communist-run government