US-Cuba | Trump admin readies Raul Castro indictment

US Federal authorities are expected to announce an indictment later today charging former Cuban President Raúl Castro in relation to a 1996 shooting down of two US civilian aircraft, killing four.

The aircraft shot down were flown by the anti-Castro exile group 'Brothers to the Rescue' while Raúl Castro was the Minister of Defence.

Cuba asserted at the time that the two Cessnas had repeatedly violated the island's airspace and that the shootdown was an act of national self-defence.

Sherwin Bryce-Pease reports that the US and the International Civil Aviation Organisation earlier concluded that the shootdown happened over international waters.

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