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President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is expected to indict former Cuban President Raul Castro on Wednesday, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital.
Fox News has also learned that a planned press conference in Miami on Wednesday is related to efforts to indict former communist leader Raul Castro, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the matter.
When asked whether Castro would be charged, Emily Covington, director of the Justice Department’s office of public affairs, told Fox News Digital that the department would not “comment on rumors.”
Castro, 94, is the younger brother of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Raul Castro was president of Cuba from 2008 to 2018.
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Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro attend a parade in Havana, Cuba, December 2, 1996. (Sven Creutzmann/Mambo Photography/Getty Images)
Any indictment would require approval by a federal grand jury.
The White House referred Fox News Digital to the DOJ for comment on the matter.
Sources on Tuesday pointed Fox News Digital to a Justice Department notice announcing a news conference in Miami “in conjunction with a ceremony honoring the victims of the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue murders.”
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Fidel Castro attends the May Day parade in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, May 1, 1998. (Sven Creutzmann/Mambo Photography/Getty Images)
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quinones, FBI Deputy Director Christopher Raia, Sen. Ashley Moody, R-Fla., and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier are expected to attend Wednesday’s news conference in Miami.
The potential charges against Castro come after CIA Director John Ratcliffe met his counterparts from the Cuban Interior Ministry during a high-level visit to the island nation last Thursday.
During his Thursday meeting, Ratcliffe met with Cuban officials, including Raulito Rodriguez Castro, Interior Minister Lazaro Alvarez Casas and the head of Cuban intelligence in Havana, to “personally convey President Trump’s message that the United States is prepared to engage seriously on economic and security issues, but only if Cuba makes fundamental changes.”
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CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with his counterparts from the Cuban Ministry of the Interior in Havana, Cuba, on May 14, 2026, to discuss the complex bilateral relations between the two countries. (CIA)
Trump joked that the United States would “take over” Cuba “almost immediately.” “Cuba has problems. We’ll finish one first. I like finishing a job,” he added this month.
Michael Sinkewicz of Fox News Digital and Jake Gibson of Fox New contributed to this report.
