{"id":278018,"date":"2026-05-20T12:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278018\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:25:09","slug":"raul-castro-indictment-expected-to-be-announced-in-miami-today-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278018\/","title":{"rendered":"Ra\u00fal Castro indictment expected to be announced in Miami today, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Reported U.S. plan to indict Ra\u00fal Castro could mean reform for Cuba, but questions remain 01:58<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Justice Department on Wednesday is expected to unveil the criminal charges against Cuba&#8217;s former leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/us-moving-to-indict-cubas-raul-castro-officials-say\/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Ra\u00fal Castro;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Ra\u00fal Castro&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Ra\u00fal Castro<\/a>, sources familiar with the investigation told CBS News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Castro, 94, the brother of longtime dictator Fidel Castro, is being indicted on charges related to Cuba&#8217;s deadly 1996 shootdown of planes operated by humanitarian group Brothers to the Rescue, U.S. officials told CBS News earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Justice Department had earlier announced an event Wednesday at Miami&#8217;s Freedom Tower during a ceremony to honor victims of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/the-story-of-1996-shootdown-raul-castro-brothers-to-the-rescue-basulto\/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Brothers to the Rescue shootdown;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Brothers to the Rescue shootdown&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Brothers to the Rescue shootdown<\/a> 30 years ago. Jose Basulto, the founder of the group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/us-moving-to-indict-cubas-raul-castro-officials-say\/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:told CBS Miami;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;told CBS Miami&quot;}\" class=\"link \">told CBS Miami<\/a> that he hoped it would be Castro&#8217;s indictment, saying &#8220;it&#8217;s time for them to pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ra\u00fal Castro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/raul-castro-resigns-head-cuba-communist-party\/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:formally stepped down;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;formally stepped down&quot;}\" class=\"link \">formally stepped down<\/a> as the leader of Cuba&#8217;s Communist Party in 2021, but he is still widely seen as one of the most powerful figures in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reported U.S. plan to indict Ra\u00fal Castro could mean reform for Cuba, but questions remain 01:58 The Justice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[118674,118675,1016,9394,33636,123,125,124,84448],"class_list":["post-278018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-brothers-to-the-rescue","tag-cbs-miami","tag-cuba","tag-fidel-castro","tag-justice-department","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-raul-castro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278018","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=278018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}