The US government said on 20 May that it was indicting Cuba’s 94-year-old former president Raúl Castro (2008-2018) on charges of shooting down two aircraft in 1996, an incident in which three US citizens lost their lives. The news came as Washington ramped up its pressure on Cuba, designed to force major economic and political reforms, not excluding the use of military force to secure regime change.
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