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(FILE) USA CUBA CASTRO

epa12978906 (FILE) - Former Cuban president and First Secretary of the Communist Party Raul Castro waves a national flag during a parade to commemorate Labour Day, at the Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, 01 May 2018 (reissued 20 May 2026). The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on 20 May 2026, unsealed a federal criminal indictment charging the 94-year-old Castro, alongside five other co-defendants, for his alleged role in the February 1996 shoot-down of two unarmed US civilian aircraft. EPA/ALEJANDRO ERNESTO *** Local Caption *** 54301368

(FILE) USA CUBA CASTRO

epa12978905 (FILE) - First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) Raul Castro speaks during the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the assaults on the barracks Carlos Manuel de Cespedes and Moncada, in the city of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 26 July 2018 (reissued 20 May 2026). The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on 20 May 2026, unsealed a federal criminal indictment charging the 94-year-old Castro, alongside five other co-defendants, for his alleged role in the February 1996 shoot-down of two unarmed US civilian aircraft. EPA/ERNESTO MASTRASCUSA *** Local Caption *** 54514514

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CUBA

FILE - Former Cuban President Raul Castro looks at the Cuban flag during his speech at the event celebrating the 65th anniversary of the triumph of the revolution in Santiago, Cuba, Jan. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, File)

(FILE) USA CUBA CASTRO

epa12978908 (FILE) - Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel (R) and former president Raul Castro (C) attend the March of the Torches for the commemoration of the 170th anniversary of the birth of Cuban hero Jose Marti, in Havana, Cuba, 27 January 2023 (reissued 20 May 2026). The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on 20 May 2026, unsealed a federal criminal indictment charging the 94-year-old Castro, alongside five other co-defendants, for his alleged role in the February 1996 shoot-down of two unarmed US civilian aircraft. EPA/ERNESTO MASTRASCUSA

FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2019 file photo, Cuba's First Secretary of Communist Party Raul Castro gives a speech during the celebration of 60th Anniversary of Cuban Revolution, in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. Castro warned Cubans on Wednesday, April 10, 2019, to brace for shortages and other economic problems due to Trump administration policies, but says the island wonâÄ™t repeat the extreme deprivation of the post-Soviet period, in his first speech to the nation in more than three months. (AP Photo/Yamil Lage, File)

epa06680183 First Secretary of Cuba's Communist Party and former president Raul Castro stands during the closing ceremony of the 9th period of the National Assembly of the Popular Power, in Havana, Cuba, 19 April 2018. Diaz-Canel, former first vice president of the Government, was appointed President of Cuba by the National Assembly to substitute Raul Castro, who retires after 12 years in power. The new leader assured that the island's foreign policy will remain unalterable and that the country will not negotiate its principles. EPA/Adalberto Roque / POOL

Cuba's President Raul Castro attends a meeting with Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, not seen, during a meeting at Revolution Palace in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, March 29, 2018. Nguyen is in Cuba on a two-day official visit. (Ernesto Mastrascusa/Pool Photo via AP)

CUBA BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE

FILE - Cuba's President Raul Castro listens to the Cuban and Venezuelan national anthems during his welcome ceremony at the Miraflores presidential palace, March 17, 2015, in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

CUBA PARTIES COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS

epa09145943 Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez (L), together with Army General Raul Castro Ruz (R), after his election as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CC PCC), during the Closing Session of the VIII Congress of the PCC, at the Palacio de Convenciones, in Havana, Cuba 19 April 2021. Cuban President Miguel Dàaz-Canel announced on 19 April that he will continue to consult with Raul Castro on 'strategic decisions for the future of the nation' after replacing the 89-year-old general as first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC). EPA/ARIEL LEY ROYERO

CUBA DIAZ-CANEL

FILE - In this May 1, 2019 file photo, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, left, and former Cuban President Raul Castro wave Cuban flags as they watch the annual May Day parade file past at Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba. On Monday, April 19, 2021, Cuba's Communist Party congress chose Dàaz-Canel to be its leader, adding that post to the title of president he assumed in 2018, replacing his mentor Raul Castro and sealing a political dynasty that had held power since the 1959 revolution. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

KUBA REGIERUNG MACHTUEBERGABE

Cuba's new president Miguel Diaz-Canel, right, applauds former president Raul Castro, after Diaz-Canel was elected as the island nation's new president, at the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, April 19, 2018. Castro left the presidency after 12 years in office when the National Assembly approved Diaz-Canel's nomination as the candidate for the top government position. (Adalberto Roque/Pool via AP)

CUBA TRANSITION

Cuba's new president Miguel Diaz-Canel, right, and former president Raul Castro embrace after Diaz-Canel was elected as the island nation's new president, at the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, April 19, 2018. Castro left the presidency after 12 years in office when the National Assembly approved Diaz-Canel's nomination as the candidate for the top government position. (Alexandre Meneghini/Pool via AP)

KUBA REGIERUNG MACHTUEBERGABE

epa06680176 First Secretary of Cuba's Communist Party and now former president Raul Castro (R) holds the arm of new president Miguel Diaz-Canel (L) in Havana, Cuba, 19 April 2018. Diaz-Canel, former first vice president of the Government, was appointed President of Cuba by the National Assembly to substitute Raul Castro, who retires after 12 years in power. The new leader assured that the island's foreign policy will remain unalterable and that the country will not negotiate its principles. EPA/Adalberto Roque / POOL

CUBA REVOLUTION ANNIVERSARY

Cuba's First Secretary of Communist Party Raul Castro gives a speech during the celebration of 60th Anniversary of Cuban Revolution in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. 2019. (Yamil Lage/Pool Photo via AP)

CUBA PEOPLE JOSE MARTI

epa08171494 First Secretary of the Communist Partyof Cuba Raul Castro (C-L), Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel (C) and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero (3-R) participate in the March of the Torches, which commemorates the birth of National Hero Jose Marti, in Havana, Cuba, 27 January 2020. EPA/YANDER ZAMORA

KUBA FLUGZEUG UNGLUECK JAHRESTAG

Cuba's President Raul Castro delivers a speech during a ceremony to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the Cubana Airlines' plane bombing in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. An aircraft of Cubana Airlines exploded in midair while traveling from Barbados to Havana Oct. 6, 1976, killing 73 people. (AP Photo/ Ismael Francisco, Prensa Latina)

Cuban President Raul Castro walks past soldiers after leaving a ceremonial wreath at the monument to the Ninos Heroes, six teenage soldiers who died defending Chapultepec Castle from invanding U.S. forces during the Mexican-American war, in Merida, Mexico, Friday, Nov. 6, 2015. The presidents of Mexico and Cuba stressed mutual interests and admiration on Friday, announcing new accords and closer political ties after more than a decade of chilly relations. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

FRANKREICH BESUCH KUBA

epa05138187 Cuba's President Raul Castro attends a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, 01 February 2016. Castro is in Paris for a two-day state visit. EPA/JACKY NAEGELEN / POOL MAXPPP OUT

FRANKREICH BESUCH KUBA

epa05138663 Cuban President Raul Castro arrives at the Elysee Palace for a meeting with French President Francois Hollande (unseen) in Paris, France, 01 February 2016. Castro is in Paris for a two-day state visit. EPA/ETIENNE LAURENT

CUBA MILITARY PARADE

Cuba's President Raul Castro watches a parade in honor of his late brother Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Jan. 2, 2017. Soldiers, students and people marched in a show of solidarity and homage to Castro who died in November of last year. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

KUBA REGIERUNG RAUL CASTRO

epa01031038 Cuban interim President, Raul Castro, during the inauguration, 06 June 2007 in Boca de Jaruco (Cuba), 45 kilometers east of the capital Havana, of the new oil and natural gas facility, operated by the Cuban-canadian company ENERGAS. Raul Castro referred today to his brother Fidel Castro's health as 'magnificent'. EPA/Adalberto Roque / POOL

KUBA FLUGZEUG UNGLUECK JAHRESTAG

Cuba's President Raul Castro delivers a speech during a ceremony to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the Cubana Airlines' plane bombing in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. An aircraft of Cubana Airlines exploded in midair while traveling from Barbados to Havana Oct. 6, 1976, killing 73 people. (AP Photo/ Ismael Francisco, Prensa Latina)

KUBA BESUCH USA

Cuba's President Raul Castro waves to the crowd as he arrives to listen to U.S. President Barack Obama deliver his speech at the Grand Theater of Havana, Tuesday, March 22, 2016. President Obama urged Cubans to look to the future with hope, casting his historic visit to the communist nation as a moment to "bury the last remnants of the Cold War in the Americas." (AP Photo/Desmond Boyland)

UNO USA VOLLVERSAMMLUNG

epa04955023 President of the Councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba Raul Castro delivers his address during the 70th session General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, New York, USA, 28 September 2015. EPA/JASON SZENES

KUBA PARTEI KONGRESS

Cuba's President Raul Castro attends a session of the 7th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party in Havana, Cuba, Monday, April 18, 2016. (Ismael Francisco/Cubadebate via AP)

COSTA RICA CUBA US

In this publicly distributed handout photo provided by the Presidency of the Republic of Costa Rica, Cuban President Raul Castro listens on a headphone to an intervention by a member state during the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States in San Jose, Costa Rica, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. Castro demanded that the United States return the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, lift the half-century trade embargo on Cuba and compensate his country for damages before the two nations re-establish normal relations. (AP Photo/Presidency of the Republic of Costa Rica, Roberto Carlos Sanchez)

KUBA PARTEI KONGRESS

epa05262613 Handout picture provided by the AIN officialist agency showing President of Cuba, Raul Castro, giving a speech during the inauguration of the Seventh Communist Party Congress, in Havana, Cuba, on 16 April 2016. The Seventh Communist Party Congress, which is set to run from 16 to 19 April, will be attended by about 1,000 delegates and will focus on the continuity of the economic reforms to update the island's socialist model approved at the prior congress in 2011. EPA/Omara García Mederos HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY

KUBA REGIERUNG KONGRESS

ALTERNATIVE CROP OF HAV109 - Fidel Castro, LEFT, and his brother Cuba's President Raul Castro attend the 6th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday April 19, 2011. Raul Castro was named first secretary of Cuba's Communist Party on Tuesday, with his aging brother Fidel not included in the leadership for the first time since the party's creation 46 years ago. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

KUBA REGIERUNG FIDEL RAUL CASTRO

Cuban leader Fidel Castro, left, and his brother Raul Castro chief of the Cuban Army are shown during the end of the year session of the Cuban National assembly in this Dec. 21, 2000 photo in Havana, Cuba. Fidel Castro, who has defied the United States for nearly half a century while wielding absolute power over this island 90 miles south of Florida, remained out of sight Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006, after undergoing intestinal surgery and temporarily turning over power to his brother Raul. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Jose Goitia)

Raul Casto, saluting, with Ernesto "Che" Guevara during a Cuban anniversary celebration, July 26, 1964, Cuba. (AP Photo) (KEYSTONE/AP/)

KUBA PRAESIDENT WAHLSIEGER CASTRO

Cuban President Fidel Castro is congratulated by his brother Raul Castro after a speech as he has been re-elected as president of the state council for the sixth term, Thursday March 6, 2003 in Havana, Cuba. The National Assembly voted unanimously to re-elect him. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Jose Goitia)

CUBA POLITICS CASTRO

Cuban President Fidel Castro (L) talks with his brother and Army Minister Raul (R) during an ordinary session of the National Assembly of the Popular Party Thursday, 01 July 2004, in the Havana Convention Center. EPA/Alejandro Ernesto

FILE - In this March 21, 2016 file photo, Cuban President Raul Castro, right, lifts up the arm of U.S. President Barack Obama, at the conclusion of their joint news conference at the Palace of the Revolution, in Havana, Cuba. The United States will vote this week against an annual United Nations resolution condemning the U.S. embargo on Cuba, reversing the Obama administrationâÄ™s abstention last year. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

USA REGIERUNG BARACK OBAMA RETROSPEKTIVE BY EPA

epa05706691 (FILE) - A file picture dated 22 March 2016 of US President Barack Obama (L) and President of Cuba Raul Castro (R) attending a Major League Baseball exhibition game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban national team at the Estadio Latinoamericano (Latin American Stadium) in Havana, Cuba. On 04 November 2008, then Democratic Senator Barack Obama (Illinois), at age 47, earned 365 electoral votes and nearly 53 of the popular vote in a wider-than-expected margin of victory against Republican Senator John McCain in the US Presidential elections. He became the 44th president of the United States and the first African American to be elected to office. President Obama quickly became known as a progressive politician and was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate nine months after his inauguration. However, he faced his share of challenges during his 8-year tenure. The Republicans held control of the Senate throughout his time in the White House and he faced constant challenges passing legislation. His administration is generally known for pursuing policies such as gun control, greater inclusiveness for LGBT Americans, the promotion of the 2015 Paris Agreement on global climate change and the Obamacare health care program for Americans. It is also known for a series of historic initiatives in international relations such as a nuclear deal with Iran and normalized relations with Cuba. EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS

USA REGIERUNG BARACK OBAMA RETROSPEKTIVE BY EPA

epa05706680 (FILE) - A file picture dated 21 March 2016 sahows US President Barack Obama (R) as he greets President of Cuba Raul Castro (L) at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, Cuba. On 04 November 2008, then Democratic Senator Barack Obama (Illinois), at age 47, earned 365 electoral votes and nearly 53 of the popular vote in a wider-than-expected margin of victory against Republican Senator John McCain in the US Presidential elections. He became the 44th president of the United States and the first African American to be elected to office. President Obama quickly became known as a progressive politician and was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate nine months after his inauguration. However, he faced his share of challenges during his 8-year tenure. The Republicans held control of the Senate throughout his time in the White House and he faced constant challenges passing legislation. His administration is generally known for pursuing policies such as gun control, greater inclusiveness for LGBT Americans, the promotion of the 2015 Paris Agreement on global climate change and the Obamacare health care program for Americans. It is also known for a series of historic initiatives in international relations such as a nuclear deal with Iran and normalized relations with Cuba. EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS *** Local Caption *** 52661846

RUSSLAND ZWEITER WELTKRIEG ENDE JAHRESTAG

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Cuban President Raul Castro, right, embrace each other during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Thursday, May 7, 2015. Raul Castro arrived in Moscow to attend celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. (Anatoly Maltsev/Pool Photo via AP)

KUBA BESUCH PAPST FRANZISKUS

Pope Francis talks with Cuba's President Raul Castro, in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)

PANAMA AMERIKA-GIPFEL

epa04701103 Cuban President Raul Castro (C) greets members of the media during a family photo at the seventh Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama, 11 April 2015. EPA/MAURICIO DUENAS CASTANEDA

FRANKREICH BESUCH KUBA

epa05138656 Cuban President Raul Castro (R) is welcomed by French President Francois Hollande upon his arrival at the Elysee Palace for a meeting in Paris, France, 01 February 2016. Castro is in Paris for a two-day state visit. EPA/ETIENNE LAURENT

KUBA FIDEL CASTRO TRAUER

Cuba's President Raul Castro greets the crowd after speaking during a last homage to his late brother Fidel Castro held at Antonio Maceo plaza in Santiago, Cuba, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016. After a four-day journey across the country through small towns and cities where his rebel army fought its way to power nearly 60 years ago, Fidel Castro's remains arrived Saturday to Santiago where they will be buried the following day. At right is Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and at left, sitting, is former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Raoul Castro, brother of Fidel and minister of defense, speaks at a rally in Barajagua, Province of (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Thomas Hoepker)

SUEDAFRIKA TOD NELSON MANDELA TRAUERFEIER

US President Barack Obama shakes hands with Cuban President Raul Castro at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, South Africa, in the rain for a memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela, Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013. The handshake between the leaders of the two Cold War enemies came during a ceremony that's focused on Mandela's legacy of reconciliation. Hundreds of foreign dignitaries and world heads of states gather Tuesday with thousands of South African people to celebrate the life, and mark the death, of Nelson Mandela who has became a global symbol of reconciliation. (AP Photo) SOUTH AFRICA OUT

YE SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS

FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - Cuban President Raul Castro, left, and U.S. President Barack Obama meet at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama, Saturday, April 11, 2015. It was the first formal meeting between the leaders of the two countries in more than half a century, clearing the way for a normalization of relations that had seemed unthinkable to both Cubans and Americans for generations. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

CUBA COLOMBIA PEACE TALKS

Cuba's President Raul Castro, center, encourages Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, left, and Commander the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC, Timoleon Jimenez, known as "Timochenko", to shake hands, in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015. In a joint statement, Santos and the FARC said they have overcome the last significant obstacle to a peace deal by settling on a formula to compensate victims and punish belligerents for human rights abuses. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

KUBA BESUCH IRAN

Cuba's President Raul Castro, right, embraces Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad before Ahmadinejad's departure at the Jose Marti international airport in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. Ahmadinejad is visiting Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador as part of his Latin American tour. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

KUBA RAUL CASTRO

Portrait von Raul Castro, kubanischer Revolutionsfuehrer und Sekretaer des Zentralkomitees der Kommunistischen Partei Kubas, undatierte Aufnahme in Uniform um 1965. (KEYSTONE/Str)

KUBA RAUL CASTRO

Portrait von Raul Castro, kubanischer Revolutionsfuehrer und Sekretaer des Zentralkomitees der Kommunistischen Partei Kubas, undatierte Aufnahme in Uniform um 1965. (KEYSTONE/Str)

KUBA FIDEL CASTRO CHE GUEVARA

Cuba's Fidel Castro (L), his brother, Raul (C), and fellow revolutionary, Che Guevara (R), pictured during the early years of their revolutionary struggle in Cuba. (KEYSTONE/CAMERA PRESS/Prensa Latina) === , ===

KUBA REVOLUTION CASTRO GUEVARA JIMENEZ

This 1960 photo shows Cuban revolution hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara(R) chatting with Raul Castro(L) while Cap. Antonio Nunez Jimenez(C) stands in between during a work meeting in Havana. Nunez Jimenez, who was the personal aid of Guevara during the early years of the revolution and who worked closely with Fidel Castro prior to the revolution, died 14 September at the age of 75, of a heart attack. (KEYSTONE/- AFP/STR) === ===

KUBA RAUL CASTRO ZEITUNG

Photo dated July 1953 of Raul Castro after the attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago, an operation considered the beginning of the Cuban revolution. Cuban President Fidel Castro was forced by illness on Monday to temporarily transfer power to his younger brother, Raul. (KEYSTONE/EPA/GRANMA MANDATORY CREDIT: GRANMA - EDITORIAL USE ONLY - -

KUBA RAUL CASTRO

Raul Castro, brother of Cuban President Fidel Castro, shown in January 1959. Fidel Castro, who has defied the United States for nearly half a century while wielding absolute power over this island 90 miles south of Florida, remained out of sight Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006, after undergoing intestinal surgery and temporarily turning over power to his brother Raul. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo) === EFE OUT, ===