Former Cuban President Raul Castro has been indicted in the United States, a senior Trump administration official told Reuters on Wednesday, in a move that marks an escalation in Washington's pressure campaign against the Caribbean island's government.
Cuba's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The indictment comes as US President Donald Trump has pushed for a regime change in Cuba, where Castro's communists have been in charge since his late brother Fidel Castro led a revolution in 1959.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has said that the island does not represent a threat.
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