President Trump’s Justice Department just reopened a wound that the Cuban communist regime has spent nearly 30 years trying to bury.
The DOJ announced that it has unsealed a superseding indictment charging former Cuban dictator Raul Modesto Castro Ruz, now 94, and five co-defendants for their alleged roles in the February 24, 1996 shoot-down of two unarmed American civilian aircraft over international waters.
The four men killed that day were Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre Jr., Mario de la Pena, and Pablo Morales.
They were flying humanitarian missions for Brothers to the Rescue, a group that searched the Florida Straits for Cuban migrants in distress.
The Justice Department laid out the heart of the case this way:
The indictment charges Castro and the other defendants with conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, two counts of destruction of aircraft, and four counts of murder tied to the 1996 attack. Prosecutors say Cuban military fighter jets, operating under a chain of command
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