US Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered Cubans a "new path" in a special video address Wednesday hours before Washington was expected to criminally indict the island's former leader Raul Castro.

The speech is part of the Trump administration's multi-layered pressure campaign targeting Havana.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered to forge a new relationship between the US and Cuba on Wednesday in a video message to the Cuban people,

US secretary of state Marco Rubio marked Cuban Independence Day with a direct message to the people of Cuba.