The US has indicted former Cuban President Raul Castro, the US Department of Justice has announced.
The indictment stems from the downing of two civilian US planes by Cuban Air Force fighter jets, with four members of a Miami-based anti-Castro humanitarian group known as Brothers to the Rescue being killed.
Cuba President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez denounced the allegations, calling it a "political maneuver, devoid of any legal foundation."
Diaz-Canel also blamed the US of lying and distorting the events surrounding the 1996 downing of the planes.
Raul Castro, the brother of long-year Cuba President Fidel Castro, oversaw a historic 2015 rapprochement with the US under Barack Obama's presidency. US President Donald Trump later reversed the move in 2017 during his first term in office.
