The comments come less than a week after Trump suggested that his administration would turn its sights on Havana.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Newsweek that the president "knows the Cuban regime wants a deal.”

President Trump on Monday said Cuba will make a deal with the United States or “we’re going to do it just as easy.” “They trust Marco Rubio and so do the American people,” the president stated. “He speaks the language,

President Donald Trump once again warned of change coming to Cuba, adding that negotiations are occurring between the island nation and the U.S.

By Daniel Trotta HAVANA, March 12 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has said repeatedly the United States is in talks with high-level Cuban representatives, and that Cuba is eager to reach a deal to defuse tensions between the two neighbors that have deepened the island's economic crisis.

House churches—recently authorized by the government—represent another significant and often unregistered section of the Christian community. According to the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), between 20,000 and 30,000 house churches gather throughout the country.

Rather than force regime change, President Trump and Marco Rubio aim to win control of the island by deepening its economic dependence on the US.

As President Donald Trump suggests that Cuba could soon fall, his administration has begun exploring whether federal prosecutors could charge the Havana regime or the Communist Party with crimes, according to a person familiar with the matter.

While the war marches on in Iran, exiled Cubans in South Florida are keenly waiting, watching and wondering when the U.S. administration will turn its full attention south.