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US charges Cuba's Raúl Castro with murder over 1996 downing of two planes
Key takeaways
- Castro, now 94, was the head of the country's armed forces and faced international condemnation over the crash.
- As the US seeks to exert increasing pressure on Cuba's communist rule, President Miguel Díaz-Canel called the charges "a political manoeuvre, devoid of any legal foundation".
- "The United States, and President Trump, does not, and will not, forget its citizens," Blanche said.
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Kayla Epstein, Cecilia Barría & Pascal Fletcher BBC News, BBC Mundo & BBC Monitoring Reuters The US has charged former Cuban leader Raúl Castro with conspiracy to kill US nationals and other crimes over the downing of two planes between Cuba and Florida in 1996.
The case unveiled on Wednesday – a revival of charges originally from 2003 – accuses Castro and five others of shooting down aircraft belonging to Cuban American group Brothers to the Rescue and killing four people, including three Americans.
Castro, now 94, was the head of the country's armed forces and faced international condemnation over the crash.
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