In accordance with constant media stories, the US Division of Justice is getting ready an indictment in opposition to the previous Cuban president Raul Castro earlier than. The transfer is expounded to the capturing down of two civilian US plane in 1996. At the moment, the Cuban Air Power shot down two planes belonging to the help group Brothers to the Rescue. At the moment, the group primarily helped Cuban boat refugees; it was an affiliation of Cuban exiles and opponents of the then Cuban President Fidel Castro, Raúl’s brother. Later, the group additionally dropped anti-Castro leaflets over Cuba, which the Cuban management on the time condemned as a result of they noticed their airspace violated.
When it was shot down four people were killedthere was a global investigation and a UN decision calling on Cuba to adjust to the principles of worldwide aviation. The then US President Invoice Clinton condemned the capturing down in clear phrases. Cuba The regime defended the motion on the grounds that the US planes had violated Cuban airspace.
Raúl Castro was protection minister on the time and subsequently had total command of the air pressure and the MiG fighter jets that carried out the shoot-down. In 2006 he took over the presidency from his ailing brother Fidel Castro.
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