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Is Cuba back on the menu?

Trump just indicted Raúl Castro. Is regime change next?

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Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration is indicting former Cuban President Raúl Castro as it seeks to ramp up pressure on the island.

What happened? The indictment against Castro and five others was unsealed in a Miami federal court on Wednesday, but it focuses on conduct from 30 years ago, when the Cuban government killed four people, three of whom were American citizens, by shooting down two small planes. It supersedes an earlier 2003 indictment, which........

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