{"id":73800,"date":"2026-05-20T16:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/us-announces-murder-charges-against-former-cuban-president-raul-castro-video\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:54:48","slug":"us-announces-murder-charges-against-former-cuban-president-raul-castro-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/us-announces-murder-charges-against-former-cuban-president-raul-castro-video\/","title":{"rendered":"US announces murder charges against former Cuban president Ra\u00fal Castro \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acting US attorney general Todd Blanche announced the indictment of former Cuban president Ra\u00fal Castro on Wednesday, in what is seen as an escalation in Washington\u2019s pressure campaign against the island&#8217;s government. The indictment was related to Castro\u2019s alleged role in the downing of two small planes operated by the exile group Brothers to the Rescue. Castro, now 94, was Cuba\u2019s defence minister at the time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/20\/donald-trump-republicans-midterms-primaries-kentucky-redistricting-raul-castro-latest-news-updates?filterKeyEvents=false\">US politics live<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2026\/may\/20\/us-announces-charges-against-former-cuban-president-raul-castro-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting US attorney general Todd Blanche announced the indictment of former Cuban president Ra\u00fal Castro on Wednesday, in what is seen as an escalation in Washington\u2019s pressure campaign against the island&#8217;s government. The indictment was related to Castro\u2019s alleged role in the downing of two small planes operated by the exile group Brothers to the &#8230; <a title=\"US announces murder charges against former Cuban president Ra\u00fal Castro \u2013 video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/us-announces-murder-charges-against-former-cuban-president-raul-castro-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US announces murder charges against former Cuban president Ra\u00fal Castro \u2013 video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}