{"id":52982,"date":"2026-05-21T08:16:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bbc-on-the-ground-in-cuba-after-us-announces-criminal-charges-against-raul-castro\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:16:35","slug":"bbc-on-the-ground-in-cuba-after-us-announces-criminal-charges-against-raul-castro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bbc-on-the-ground-in-cuba-after-us-announces-criminal-charges-against-raul-castro\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC on the ground in Cuba after US announces criminal charges against Ra\u00fal Castro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">BBC correspondent Will Grant reports from Havana, hours after the US charged former Cuban leader Ra\u00fal Castro with conspiracy to kill US nationals and other crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">The case unveiled on Wednesday accuses Castro and five others over the 1996 downing of two planes belonging to Cuban-American group Brothers to the Rescue. Four people were killed, including three Americans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel has called the charges &#8220;a political manoeuvre, devoid of any legal foundation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Nearly 95 years old, Castro, the brother of late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, remains an influential figure, acknowledged on the island as the surviving &#8220;leader of the Cuban Revolution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cy529g5lnleo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC correspondent Will Grant reports from Havana, hours after the US charged former Cuban leader Ra\u00fal Castro with conspiracy to kill US nationals and other crimes. The case unveiled on Wednesday accuses Castro and five others over the 1996 downing of two planes belonging to Cuban-American group Brothers to the Rescue. Four people were killed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52984,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52982\/revisions\/52984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}