Why has the US indicted Cuba’s Raul Castro now?

Name: Why has the US indicted Cuba’s Raul Castro now?
Uploaded: 2026-05-20T20:58:48Z
Duration: 1 min 24 s
Description: The indictment of former Cuban President Raul Castro over a 1996 plane shootdown revives a decades-old case.

The indictment of former Cuban President Raul Castro over a 1996 plane shootdown revives a decades-old case at a moment of heightened US pressure on Havana. Al Jazeera’s Kimberly Halkett explains why the timing matters.