U.S. federal prosecutors on Wednesday criminally indicted Former Cuban President Raul Castro as Washington called on the communist-ruled island’s citizens to choose a “new path.”
An indictment unsealed in a federal court in Florida charged the influential former president over the 1996 downing of` two civilian planes manned by anti-Castro pilots.
Castro, brother of Fidel Castro, the late iconic U.S. nemesis who led the 1959 communist revolution, was charged with murder, conspiracy to kill Americans, and destruction of aircraft.
The charges added fuel to speculation that President Donald Trump intends to topple the Cuban government.
Trump previously seized on a U.S. domestic indictment to justify military action in January that toppled and seized Venezuela's then president Nicolas Maduro, a staunch ally of the Cuban authorities.
