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Two ways Trump’s Cuba standoff could end

Cubans rally in Havana, Cuba, on May 22, 2026, to condemn the US indictment of former President Raúl Castro. | Joaquin Hernandez/Xinhua via Getty Images The United States indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro in federal court last week, one of its most aggressive actions against the island since the end of the Cold War. The unsealed indictment charges Castro, the 94-year-old brother of deceased Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and five others for alleged involvement in the shooting down of two small planes over Cuba in 1996. Four people, three of them US citizens, were killed. The in...