The Justice Department is preparing to seek an indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro, three people familiar with the matter tell The Associated Press. One of the people said the potential indictment is connected to Castro's alleged role in the 1996 shootdown of planes operated by the Miami exile group.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Cuban officials including Raúl Castro's grandson during a high-level visit to the island Thursday, Cuban and U.S. officials said.

Cuba’s national energy grid has suffered a major failure, cutting power to the island’s eastern provinces. The outage Thursday comes amid a prolonged economic crisis, worsened by a U.S. energy blockade.

The State Department is reiterating that the U.S. is ready to deliver the aid through the Roman Catholic Church and other NGOs. Meanwhile, the Trump administration wants to see what it calls “meaningful” political and economic liberalization in Cuba.

Abelardo de la Espriella in Colombia and Flávio Bolsonaro in Brazil have never appeared on the same stage, but they are running similar campaigns, reading from similar scripts, and looking toward the same set of foreign role models.

"It is clear that the security conditions are not met at the level for us to have elections in August," Fils-Aimé said in an interview broadcast Monday on Magik9 radio in Haiti and reported by Reuters.

The senator's letter was sent the same day the International Committee of the Red Cross reported that the impact of armed conflict on civilians in Colombia over the past year has been the worst in a decade.

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez has arrived in the Netherlands to defend her country’s claim to a mineral- and oil-rich region in western Guyana before the United Nations highest court in a dispute that has spanned decades.

Their requests came the day ProPublica published its investigation detailing how prosecutors had uncovered a drugs-for-votes scheme being run by a violent gang in Puerto Rican prisons and were deep into looking at whether now-Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón or her campaign were involved.

A Florida jury has convicted four men of conspiracy in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Prosecutors said South Florida served as a central location for planning and financing the plot to oust Moïse and replace him with someone else.

Federal prosecutors are seeking to revoke the U.S. citizenship of Manuel Rocha, a former diplomat who served as a secret agent for Cuba. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami filed a civil denaturalization complaint Thursday.

The officials involved in preliminary discussions with Cuban authorities also told The Associated Press that they are not optimistic the communist government will accept an offer for tens of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid.