The decision by the United States government to move toward criminal charges against former Cuban President Raul Castro marks one of Washington’s most aggressive judicial and political moves against the island’s leadership in decades, precisely amid a context of intense pressure on the Cuban government and an oil embargo that is suffocating both the regime and ordinary citizens, APA reports.
According to U.S. officials cited by Reuters and other media outlets, the Department of Justice is expected to announce next week in Miami charges related to the 1996 shootdown of two aircraft belonging to the organization Brothers to the Rescue, an incident that left four people dead and triggered a diplomatic crisis between the two countries.
