During the morning of this Wednesday May 20various congressmen republicans They stated that the accusation presented by the US authorities against the Cuban general and politician Raul Castrowho was president of Cuba since 2008 until the 2018represents a way of “do justice” for all Cubans.
“Everything indicates that Raúl Castro is on the list of bad. That’s why today is a day glorious for Cubans, because aid has arrived and because the United States, after 67 years, has decided to take the initiative to do what correct and free the Cuban people from the satraps“added María Elvira Salazar, representative of the district of Florida.
Therefore, Elvira Salazarwho represents one of the districts with the greatest presence of Cuban exiles in Miamicelebrated as “a before and after” the announcement of the federal case against the youngest Castro, related to the shooting down of small planes belonging to the organization Brothers to the Rescue in 1996in which four people died.
Additionally, this announcement coincides with the date of the inauguration of the first elected president democratically in Cuba, in May 1902, a date that the Cuban community in the United States claims as Independence Day and that Havana rejects it as considering it the beginning of a republic under guardianship United States.
Accusation against Raúl Castro
“This is not only about doing justice for Mario de la Peña, Pablo Morales, Carlos Costa and Armando Alejandre —those killed in the downing of the small planes—, but also for the Cuban people, who have been waiting for years for the United States, the great neighbor to the north, to do so. help“added the Republican politician Mario Rafael Díaz-Balart.
In turn, the member of the United States House of Representatives for the congressional district of Florida warned that “it’s unfortunate” that the Cuban general and politician Raúl Castro be accused of 94 yearsjust because of this incident of February 1996because the former Cuban president “has many more crimes” to answer for.
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For his part, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubiocalled on Cubans to support the “new Cuba” proposed by the president of the United States, donald trumpand reject the military elites who, according to him, have only enriched themselves at the expense of the people, in reference to the Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel.
Likewise, the head of US diplomacy, of Cuban descent, blamed to the Cuban Government of the acute humanitarian and economic crisis that the nation suffers. For this reason, Rubio’s words come in the midst of the renewed pressures and threats from President Trump that he will take control of the island “one way or another.”
The charges against Raúl Castro
According to what was stated by the American television network Fox Newsformer Cuban president Raúl Castro was accused by the United States Department of Justice on charges including murder and conspiracy to kill American citizensin reference to the four pilots of Brothers to the Rescue in 1996.
Under the circumstances, according to court documents, the United States Government imputed to the former president of Cuba for the destruction of one aircraft and for the death of four pilots of the organization Brothers to the Rescue more than three decades ago, for which he filed the charges in the federal court of the Southern District of Florida.