BBC correspondent Will Grant reports from Havana, hours after the United States charged former Cuban leader Raúl Castro with conspiracy to murder American nationals and other crimes.
The case, made public Wednesday, accuses Castro and five others of shooting down two planes belonging to the Cuban-American group Brothers to the Rescue in 1996. Four people died, including three Americans.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called the charges a “political ploy without legal basis.”
At nearly 95 years old, Castro, the brother of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, remains an influential figure and is recognized as the island’s surviving “leader of the Cuban Revolution.”
