Raúl Castro indicted over 1996 downing of civilian planes off Florida

Four people were killed instantly when Cuban military jets shot down two civilian aircraft: Armando Alejandre Jr., Carlos Alberto Costa, Mario Manuel de la Peña, and Pablo Morales.

Thirty years after Cuban military jets destroyed two small civilian aircraft over international waters, killing four men who had set out on a humanitarian mission, the United States has indicted Raúl Castro for his role in ordering the attack. The 1996 shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue planes was not merely a Cold War incident but a calculated act that severed a quiet diplomatic opening and locked two neighboring nations into another generation of hostility. Now, as Cuba endures an economic collapse that mirrors the crisis that first sent those planes aloft, the indictment arrives as both a

Raúl Castro indicted over 1996 downing of civilian planes off Florida

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