Indicting sovereignty: Washington’s specious case against Raúl Castro and the criminalization of Cuba’s right to self-defence
By Isaac Saney*
The recent decision by the U.S. Department of Justice to indict Raúl Castro over the 1996 shoot-down of aircraft belonging to Brothers to the Rescue is not an act of justice. It is a profoundly political maneuver designed to intensify Washington’s decades-long campaign against the Cuban Revolution while rewriting the historical record of U.S. aggression against Cuba.









