1996 Cuban downing of two US planes behind Raul Castro indictment

The criminal indictment on Wednesday of Raul Castro, Cuba’s former president, springs from the downing three decades ago of two civilian US planes by Cuban Air Force MiG fighters. Castro, the brother of longtime leader Fidel Castro, was defense minister when the two Cessnas belonging to a Cuban-American exile group were shot down by air-to-air […] The post 1996 Cuban downing of two US planes behind Raul Castro indictment appeared first on Digital Journal.