U.S. seeks Raúl Castro indictment over 1996 shootdown (opens in new tab)

The Justice Department is preparing to seek criminal charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro, 94, and federal prosecutors are expected to unseal an indictment in Miami on May 20 if a grand jury approves it, a U.S. Justice Department official and people familiar with the matter said. The expected case focuses on the 1996 Cuban shootdown of two aircraft operated by Brothers to the Rescue, a Miami-based exile group, that killed four people; Castro was Cuba’s defense minister at the ti...