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Why has the US indicted Cuba’s Raul Castro now?

Al Jazeera · May 20, 2026, 8:58 PM · Also reported by 4 other sources

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The indictment of former Cuban President Raul Castro over a 1996 plane shootdown revives a decades-old case.

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Why has the US indicted Cuba’s Raul Castro now?

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