The United States has indicted former Cuban President Raul Castro, the US Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
Castro has been charged for his alleged role in the downing of two civilian US planes by Cuban air force fighter jets in 1996, which killed four members of a Miami-based anti-Castro humanitarian group known as Brothers to the Rescue. Castro was defense minister at the time.
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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez has denounced the allegations, calling it a "political maneuver, devoid of any legal foundation."
Diaz-Canel also accused the US of lying and distorting the events surrounding the 1996 plane downing.
