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. Yamil Lage | Afp | Getty Images Former Cuban President Raul Castro has been indicted in the United States on murder charges, court records showed ⁠on Wednesday, in a major escalation in Washington’s pressure campaign against the island’s communist government. Cuba’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Castro, 94, last appeared in public in Cuba earlier this month, and there is no evidence that he has since left the island ​or that the government would allow him to be extradited. The indictment comes ​as U.S. President Donald Trump has pushed for a regime change ​in Cuba, where Castro’s communists have been in charge since 1959 when a revolution led by his late brother Fidel Castro overthrew Fulgencio Batista. The details of the charges were not immediately available. A U.S. Justice Department official told Reuters last week on the condition of anonymity that the charges against him are expected to be based on a 1996 incident in which Cuban …