President Donald Trump is using economic leverage to bring Cuba's communist regime to a more level of change, a move reminiscent of the actions of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro or Ayatollah Khamenei. The Cuban regime is currently under a mix of gerontocracy, nepotism, and socialism, with supreme authority from 94-year-old Raul Castro, brother of Fidel Castro, the state's founding dictator. Despite this, Cuban officials have seen how far the Trump administration is willing to go, with the potential prosecutions of Cuban leaders in American courts for drug and human trafficking. The move comes as part of a larger economic package in the works, which could lead to more reforms.