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US charges former Cuban president with murder
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- The charges against the former president — who at 94 years old remains influential in Cuban politics — stem from the deadly 1996 downing of two civilian planes manned by anti-Castro pilots.
- Castro is the younger brother of Fidel Castro, the late iconic US nemesis who led Cuba’s 1959 communist revolution.
- “We expect that he will show up here by his own will or by another way and go to prison,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told a news conference in Miami attended by cheering Cuban-Americans.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize MIAMI, United States: The United States on Wednesday indicted Cuba’s former leader Raul Castro on murder charges, fueling speculation that President Donald Trump will try to topple the communist state.
The charges against the former president — who at 94 years old remains influential in Cuban politics — stem from the deadly 1996 downing of two civilian planes manned by anti-Castro pilots.
Castro is the younger brother of Fidel Castro, the late iconic US nemesis who led Cuba’s 1959 communist revolution.
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