{"id":277214,"date":"2026-05-19T21:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/277214\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:47:16","slug":"doj-florida-leaders-to-make-announcement-in-miami-during-brothers-to-the-rescue-ceremony-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/277214\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ, Florida leaders to make announcement in Miami during Brothers to the Rescue ceremony \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

As South Florida is set to honor the victims killed in the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shootdown on Wednesday, officials with the U.S. Department of Justice and Florida leaders will gather in Miami to make an announcement.<\/p>\n

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Qui\u00f1ones, FBI Deputy Director Christopher G. Raia, U.S. Senator Ashley Moody and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier will be at Miami’s Freedom Tower for the announcement. <\/p>\n

According to two U.S. officials, the 1996 deaths of four men over the Florida Straits after two Brothers to the Rescue aircraft were shot down is the focus of a possible indictment of former Cuban leader Ra\u00fal Castro<\/a> by the Justice Department. <\/p>\n

The potential indictment marks a dramatic escalation in tensions between Washington and Havana and comes nearly 30 years after Cuban fighter jets shot down the civilian planes during a humanitarian mission.<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Basulto, founder of Brothers to the Rescue<\/a> and a survivor of the mission, told NBC6 he has waited decades for accountability.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve been wishing for that for a long time,\u201d Basulto said. \u201cI’ve been wishing for justice to be served, justice to be realized.\u201d<\/p>\n

The victims\u2019 families are expected to attend the event at Miami\u2019s Freedom Tower, which coincides with Cuban Independence Day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As South Florida is set to honor the victims killed in the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shootdown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1016,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-277214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-cuba","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}