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Trump is ramping up the pressure. First a MQ-4C Triton near Cuba, now the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and two escort warships have entered the Caribbean.

The Trump administration’s strategy against Cuba is looking a lot like the playbook for Venezuela. There's an oil blockade, a growing U.S. military presence, federal indictments and repeated threats of intervention.

Marco Rubio says Venezuela no longer poses the same U.S. threat, while warning democracy remains unfinished.

Between a steady stream of threats, expanded sanctions and the indictment of former Cuban leader RAÚL CASTRO, the Trump administration appears to be following the Venezuela playbook as it cranks up the pressure on Cuba.

Cuban officials on Friday announced that the island country has run out of oil and diesel as it grapples with a worsening humanitarian crisis in the face of increasing pressure from the Trump administration to change its ways under U.

The deal to ship 250,000 barrels of fuel to Cuba could have eased an energy crisis. But the Trump administration says Vanguard Energy lacks the authorization to proceed.

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