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U.S. Indicts Raúl Castro, Sets Stage for Cuba Invasion
Cuban fighters shot down a pair of civilian planes flown by Miami-based Cuban exiles in 1996. The U.S. Justice Department indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro over the incident on Wednesday.
The indictment accuses the 94-year-old Castro of ordering the shootdowns, charging him with murder and destruction of an airplane and announcing a warrant for his arrest. Todd Blanche also issued a thinly veiled threat against the elderly Castro, saying, “We expect that he will show up here, by his own will or by another way.”
This story lays the groundwork for an American invasion of Cuba. Remember when Marco Rubio justified the attack on Venezuela as a “law enforcement operation” rather than a military mission? Neocons could now use the same excuse to send bombers to Havana.