Cuba’s government says it is open to offering the management of the island's hotels to Cubans at home and abroad.

By Dave Sherwood HAVANA, June 3 (Reuters) - Cuba's former leader Raul Castro turned 95 on Wednesday, though his whereabouts were still unknown two weeks after U.S. authorities charged him with murder in connection with the downing of civilian airplanes in 1996.

Thousands of claims by American citizens and companies for properties nationalized in Cuba are now worth billions.

The United States indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro. The indictment is tied to the alleged downing of two civilian planes in 1996.

President Donald Trump on Thursday said past U.S. presidents have mulled intervening in Cuba for decades, but “it looks like I’ll be the one that does it.”

President Donald Trump is chasing the kind of regime-altering triumph in Cuba that has eluded him in Iran. But any move toward yet more action by the stretched US armed forces would come with high political and military risks.

Escalating US pressure on Cuba is pushing the island into a humanitarian and economic catastrophe. That may be by design.

U.S. officials announced federal charges May 20 against former Cuban President Raúl Castro for the 1996 shootdown of two civilian planes that killed four people, including three Americans. Officials made the announcement on Cuban Independence Day at Freedom Tower,

Raúl Castro has turned 95, a landmark birthday for a man still helping lead one of the last communist countries in the world