US indictment of Raúl Castro comes amid a long history of American aggression against Cuba

Recent military and economic pressure on Cuba, including Trump’s threats of a ‘friendly takeover’ of the island, follow a long pattern of US hostility toward its southern neighbor.

By: Kevin A. Young, UMass Amherst, The Conversation

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Published: June 8, 2026

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By Kevin A. Young, UMass Amherst

The Trump administration on May 20, 2026, indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro for murder, based on the downing of two planes near the Cuban coastline in 1996 that killed four people.

As a historian of Latin America and U.S. foreign policy, I believe the indictment may be the prelude to direct U.S. military action against Cuba.

Before Castro, the last U.S. indictment of a Latin American leader …

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