Rubio doubtful of diplomacy with Cuba as Trump renews threat of military action

The US president, Donald Trump , and the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Thursday again raised the spectre of military intervention in Cuba, a renewed threat that takes on greater weight a day after the administration announced criminal charges against the island’s former leader, Raúl Castro. Trump said previous US presidents have considered intervening in Cuba for decades but that “it looks like I’ll be the one that does it”. …