(The Center Square) – “We have Cuba on our minds,” President Donald Trump told reporters following the indictment of former Cuban President Raúl Castro Wednesday.
The U.S. has been turning up the heat on the communist Caribbean Island, with the president toying with military action to bring down several decades of dictatorship in Cuba.
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