Trump Asked to Indict Raul Castro for Air-Raft Supply Drop Shoot-Down

KEY POINTS

•Four Cuban American Republicans, led by Mario Diaz-Balart, asked Trump to indict Raul Castro over a 1996 plane shoot-down.
•The Brothers to the Rescue aid group lost four members when Cuban jets downed their planes near international waters.
•This happened as Trump’s administration pursued broader Western Hemisphere moves, including the January seizure of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro.

In a Florida man-versus-communist sequel, four Cuban American GOP Congress members—Mario Diaz-Balart, Carlos Gimenez, Maria Elvira Salazar, and NY’s Nicole Malliotakis—pen a Dear Donald letter demanding DOJ indict Raul Castro, then military head, now 94-year-old retired Fidel sidekick. They want charges for the legendary 1996 Brothers to the Rescue downing: two planes, four aid group martyrs, and a literal raft rescue mission gone wrong in international waters. Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the US embargo upgrade, this pitch for the perp to face justice comes amid Trump’s Western Hemisphere power plays, like snagging Venezuelan narco-president Maduro exactly on Panama’s Noriega snatch anniversary. Because nothing says 'keeping Cuba in check' like timestamped political vendettas.

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Mockingbird News

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Nothing screams effective foreign policy like reopening a 1996 airplane shoot-down case because the villain just recently retired. Presidential hustle or laundry list of grudges with a political calendar? You decide.

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