There has long been infighting among the various factions of the dissident movement. This is hindering any plan to achieve consensus among the regime’s critics

The indictment comes as Trump pushes for a regime change in Cuba, where Castro's communists have been in charge since Fidel Castro led a revolution in 1959.

Cuba’s Raúl Castro remains one of the defining figures of the 1959 revolution and the last surviving member of Fidel Castro’s inner circle. He has now been indicted by the United States over the 1996 downing of two civilian aircraft.

Communist guerrilla, Bay of Pigs defender and Fidel Castro's successor, Raúl Castro is now the target of a U.S. criminal indictment.

Raúl Castro is 94 and no longer holds any official title, but he still wields enormous power, experts say, particularly over the military.

As the U.S. upped pressure on Cuba, charging former President Raúl Castro with murder in connection to a 1996 attack on civilian planes, leaders of the island nation warned citizens to prepare for war.

Trump pivots to Cuba and takes on his own party in the primaries