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DOJ indicts Raúl Castro over fatal 1996 civilian planes’ shooting

The Justice Department indicted former Cuban president Raúl Castro on Wednesday in connection to the 1996 shooting of two civilian planes that killed four Cuban Americans.

© C.M. Guerrero

Photos of Brothers to the Rescue pilots Carlos Costa, Amando Alejandre Jr., Mario de la Peña and Pablo Morales displayed at Florida International University.

© Rick Bowmer

Some of the boats from the flotilla head for open waters in 1996 off Key West, Fla., carrying Cuban Americans to the site of the downing of two Brothers to the Rescue planes by Cuban fighters.
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