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FILE - Raul Castro waves a Cuban national flag during a May Day parade at Revolution Square in Havana on May 1, 2025.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States began ratcheting up pressure on communist-controlled Cub…
Federal prosecutors have announced charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro in the 1996 downing of civilian planes operated by Miami-based exiles. The charges announced Wednesday marked a major escalation in the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle seven decades of single-party rule in the Caribbean island.
Castro, now 94, was Cuba's defense minister at the time of the 1996 downing of two planes that killed four people.Â
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