Cuba’s former President Raul Castro waves a Cuban national flag during the commemoration of May Day (Labour Day), marking International Workers’ Day, at Havana’s Revolution Square on May 1, 2025.
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The U.S. Justice Department said it will make an announcement in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday in conjunction with a ceremony to honor the victims of a 1996 incident in which Cuban military jets killed four people.
The Trump administration plans to announce criminal charges against former Cuban president Raul Castro on Wednesday, according to a U.S. Justice Department official, in a move that would mark a step-up in Washington’s pressure campaign against the Caribbean island’s communist government.
