US charges former Cuban president with murder as pressure builds
Cuban President Fidel Castro (L) and his brother Raul, Minister of the Revoutionary Armed Forces, chat during the last meeting of the Cuban Parliament in Havana on December 23, 2003.
The United States on Wednesday indicted Cuba's former leader Raul Castro on murder charges, fueling speculation that President Donald Trump will try to topple the communist state.
The charges against the former president — who at 94 years old remains influential in Cuban politics — stem from the deadly 1996 downing of two civilian planes manned by anti-Castro pilots.
Castro is the younger brother of Fidel Castro, the late iconic U.S. nemesis who led Cuba's 1959 communist revolution.
