The United States announced that it's placing Cuban former leader Raúl Castro in one of the most extraordinary categories in modern international law: presidents and former heads of government charged in U.S. criminal courts.
The Trump administration unveiled criminal charges against the 94-year-old former Cuban president over the 1996 shootdown of two Brothers to the Rescue planes, a case that has haunted Miami's Cuban exile community for three decades and helped freeze U.S.-Cuba relations after a brief opening in the 1990s. The announcement was made today in Miami during a Justice Department event honoring the four men killed in the attack.
