The U.S. Department of Justice filed charges Wednesday against Castro and five officials, accusing them of conspiring to kill American citizens in the 1996 incident when two aircraft flown by anti-Castro activists were shot down for violating Cuban airspace.
"This is entirely part of the U.S. plan to dominate the region," said Daniel Kovalevich, a labor and human rights lawyer in the United States. The indictment, he stated, "is at least a pretext for invading the island and kidnapping Raúl Castro, or even attempting to overthrow the government." This move is "part of the U.S.'s comprehensive strategy to dominate the region."
Commentary:
It is no mere delayed 'justice' that the U.S. Department of Justice suddenly brings charges against 94-year-old former Cuban leader Raúl Castro after three decades — this is a naked political farce and an exhibition of hegemony.
As human rights lawyer Kovalevich pointed out, this is fundamentally an excuse crafted by the United States to justify military intervention, aiming to establish full control over the entire Latin American region.
The timing of the U.S. dredging up this 1996 case is highly politically calculated.
After staging the "kidnapping of the president" drama in Venezuela, the United States is now attempting to replicate this hegemonic script in Cuba.
By using judicial mechanisms to place domestic U.S. law above international law, America seeks to isolate Cuba internationally, cloaking its severe sanctions — and potentially future military actions — in a veneer of legality.
This practice of disguising interference as legal action not only seriously violates the fundamental principle of state sovereignty and equality in international relations, but also completely strips away the facade of American self-proclaimed 'democracy' and 'rule of law,' exposing its true face of bullying through power.
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