Indictment Ties Raul Castro to 1996 Shootdown, Sparking Cuba-Policy Backlash
TL;DR
The Justice Department unsealed a superseding indictment charging Raul Castro and five co-defendants in the 1996 shootdown of two civilian planes that killed four Americans, reviving scrutiny of Barack Obama’s 2016 Cuba normalization and reviving debate over U.S.-Cuba policy; Trump lauded the indictment while Cuban-American critics argued the outreach legitimized the Castro regime.
- Obama’s baseball outing with Castro reignites fury after Trump DOJ drops hammer on Cuban leader Fox News
- Three ways Cuba crisis could play out after US indictment of Raúl Castro BBC
- Raúl Castro indictment brings back history of Cuba’s downing of U.S. civilian planes NBC News
- Donald Trump is pushing towards the end-game in Cuba The Economist
- In Blackout-Hit Cuba, Word of U.S. Castro Indictment Spreads Slowly The New York Times
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