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CUBA | Washington Targets 94-Year-Old Raúl Castro with Indictment Threat - What It Really Signals

As Cuba runs out of fuel and its people endure 22-hour blackouts, the Trump administration moves to indict and potentially rendition a retired nonagenarian over a 30-year-old aerial incident — raising urgent questions about imperial overreach, sovereignty, and Caribbean security.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 15, 2026 - There is something breathtaking — and something deeply revealing — about a government that holds the most powerful military in human history, controls the world’s reserve currency, and has just assumed dominion over Venezuela’s oil industry, yet finds it necessary to threaten the indictment of a 94-year-old retiree for an aerial confrontation that took place three decades ago.

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Former president Raúl Castro, pictured on 1 May 2025, has officially retired but remains the most potent figure in Cuban politics. Photograph: Norlys Perez/Reuters
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