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The Indictment That Waited Thirty Years
On May 20, a federal indictment unsealed at Freedom Tower charged Raúl Castro with murder for the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shootdown. The file had been ready for thirty years — and kept closed, at a price no one in Washington ever announced publicly.
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The Aid Ship in the Revolution's Harbor
A Colombian ship carrying food, medicine, and solar panels docked in Havana Bay on June 12 — the latest in a series of humanitarian deliveries to a country that once sent doctors and solidarity outward to the world. The direction of the current has reversed.
The Private Sector Was Supposed to Be the Point
The Trump administration has blocked a Florida company's contracted delivery of 250,000 barrels of fuel to Cuba's private sector. Washington spent a decade insisting the private sector was the point — and then killed the shipment.
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