{"id":9095,"date":"2026-05-21T06:48:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/?p=9095"},"modified":"2026-05-21T06:48:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:18:57","slug":"bbc-reports-from-cuba-after-us-announces-criminal-charges-against-raul-castro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/?p=9095&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"BBC Reports from Cuba After US Announces Criminal Charges Against Ra\u00fal Castro"},"content":{"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**.<\/p>\n<h3>US Accuses Castro Over 1996 Plane Downing<\/h3>\n<p>The case, unveiled on Wednesday, accuses Castro and five others over the **1996 downing of two planes** belonging to the Cuban-American group Brothers to the Rescue. Four people were killed in the incident, including three Americans.Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel has strongly criticized the charges, calling them &#8220;**a political manoeuvre, devoid of any legal foundation**.&#8221;Despite being nearly 95 years old, Castro, the brother of the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, remains an **influential figure** on the island, acknowledged as the surviving &#8220;leader of the Cuban Revolution.&#8221;#RaulCastro #Cuba #USCubaRelations #InternationalLaw #PoliticalManeuver #Havana #BBCNews #CubanRevolution #BrothersToTheRescue #USJustice<\/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**. US Accuses Castro Over 1996 Plane Downing The case, unveiled on Wednesday, accuses Castro and five others over the **1996 downing of two planes** belonging to the Cuban-American group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}