Cubans grapple with fuel shortages and blackouts as US steps up pressure
Key takeaways
- Will Grant BBC's Mexico, Central America and Cuba correspondent BBCAna Rosa Romero says she barely leaves her apartment due to the uncertainty of what might happen.
- The US case, unveiled on Wednesday, accuses Castro and five others in the shooting down of two planes belonging to Cuban-American group Brothers to the Rescue in 1966 - killing four people, including three Americans.
- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has called this and other charges levelled at Castro "a political manoeuvre, devoid of any legal foundation".
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Will Grant BBC's Mexico, Central America and Cuba correspondent BBCAna Rosa Romero says she barely leaves her apartment due to the uncertainty of what might happen. The incident at the centre of a murder charge against Cuba's former president, Raúl Castro, is burned into the collective memory of both Havana and Miami.
The US case, unveiled on Wednesday, accuses Castro and five others in the shooting down of two planes belonging to Cuban-American group Brothers to the Rescue in 1966 - killing four people, including three Americans.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has called this and other charges levelled at Castro "a political manoeuvre, devoid of any legal foundation".