They hope that the men who have made their country miserable, prompting the recent emigration of a quarter of the country’s population, may be next on Donald Trump’s list of problems in his hemisphere that he is willing to solve by force.

The comments came less than 48 hours after the American military conducted a brazen raid inside Caracas to arrest Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.

A day after the ouster of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump is renewing his calls for an American takeover of the Danish territory of Greenland.

For months as the US military prepared to strike Venezuela, many Cubans have asked a simple, if disconcerting, question: “Are we next?”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio backed his boss after he suggested it might be time to consider action against the "failing nation."

"Cuba is a communist dictatorship that's [...] preyed on their own people," the South Carolina Republican senator said.

The secretary of state's latest remarks came after he told reporters that he'd be "concerned" if he were a government official in Havana.

Hours after the US military whisked Nicolás Maduro away from Caracas, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said his people should be prepared to “give their blood, even their lives” to defend Venezuela and the Cuban revolution.