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US Charges Raúl Castro with Murder Over 1996 Downing of Two Aircraft

US Charges Raúl Castro with Murder Over 1996 Downing of Two Aircraft

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The U.S. Justice Department has indicted former Cuban president Raúl Castro on charges of murder, conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, and destruction of aircraft for the 1996 shoot‑down of two civilian planes operated by the exile group Brothers to the Rescue.

Donald Trump
Republican Party
1. But it's a country that really needs help. They can't turn on the lights, they can't eat. We don't want to see that.
2. I can (make a deal) whether you change the regime or not. It has been a rough regime and they killed a lot of people.
3. No. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be. Look, the place is falling apart. It's a mess, and they've sort of lost control.
4. Just as no family can be truly secure in a violent neighborhood, we will not allow chaos, instability or danger to fester in America's own back yard.
5. From the Gulf of America to the frozen waters of the Arctic, from the shores of Havana to the banks of the Panama canal, we will drive out the forces of lawlessness and crime and foreign encroachment, just like we've been doing.
6. America will not tolerate a rogue state with hostile foreign military, intelligence and terror operations just ninety miles [145km] from us. We will not rest until people of Cuba once again have freedom.
Maria Elvira Salazar
Republican Party
1. Why it's taken 30 years, I don't know why, but the number one job of any government is to protect its citizens. Finally, this administration, the Trump administration, has taken notice of that and said, 'Yes, we will protect American citizens.' And yes, maybe justice comes a little late in this case, but justice will be served.
2. Today is a glorious day for those Cubans who had to leave their homeland unwillingly, the people that we represent in the city of Miami, only because of the cruelty of the wickedness of a group of gangsters, the Castro family, who did nothing but seize the island to turn it into their own business.
Mario Diaz-Balart
Republican Party
1. We expect that today justice is finally arrived.
2. We have a different president now, a president who is not willing to look the other way.
Nicole Malliotakis
Republican Party
1. We hope this will be a turning point for the Cuban people.
2. This is a Communist regime that has brutally killed, tortured its people, and much of it was work of Raul Castro himself.
Marco Rubio
Republican Party
1. The real reason you don't have electricity, fuel, or food is because those who control your country have plundered billions of dollars, but nothing has been used to help the people.
2. And the only role played by the so-called 'government' is to demand that you continue making 'sacrifices' and repressing anyone who dares to complain.
3. A 'state within the state' that is accountable to no one and hoards the profits from its businesses for the benefit of a small elite.
4. And, currently, the only thing standing in the way of a better future are those who control your country.
5. In the US, we are ready to open a new chapter in the relationship between our people and our countries.
6. A new Cuba where you have a real opportunity to choose who governs your country and vote to replace them if they are not doing a good job.
7. President Trump is offering a new path between the US and a new Cuba.
Carlos Gimenez
Republican Party
1. They were just looking for these rafters in the middle of the Florida Strait so that they wouldn't die, and then they report the position to the Coast Guard, that's all they were doing.
Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro
Communist Party of Cuba
1. The American people are among our closest neighbours. We should respect each other. We have never held anything against the American people. Good relations would be mutually advantageous. Perhaps we cannot solve all of our problems, but we can solve a good many of them.
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez
Communist Party of Cuba
1. Intervention, interference, dispossession, frustration: that is what May 20th signifies in Cuba's history.
2. This is a political manoeuvre, devoid of any legal basis, aimed solely at padding the dossier they are fabricating to justify the folly of a military aggression against Cuba.

US Charges Raúl Castro with Murder Over 1996 Downing of Two Aircraft

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