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The Afterburn Podcast

Raul Castro Indicted | Is Cuba the Next Venezuela?

The Afterburn Podcast

John "Rain" Waters

Military, Lifestyle, Aviation, Leisure, Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

Things seem to be heating up in the Caribbean yet again. On May 20, 20, 26, the U.S. Department of Justice

0:06.0

unsealed, a federal grand jury indictment at the Freedom Tower in Miami. In that indictment,

0:11.0

they charged former head of state Raul Castro with the murder of American civilians. That same day,

0:16.3

the USS Nimeth Carrier Strike Group entered into the Caribbean Sea, and they did it with

0:20.3

quite some

0:20.9

fanfare and announcements from the U.S. government.

0:23.3

Now, I am not a Navy person, but it does seem rather non-standard to have a carrier strike

0:28.3

group enter the Caribbean unless it's doing sea trials, workup for a possible deployment,

0:34.3

etc.

0:34.8

It's just not somewhere where we usually send our carrier strike groups.

0:41.6

I could be mistaken there. But the next day, ICE arrested a woman in Miami.

0:46.0

And the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, he personally revoked her green card. All three coordinated on Cuba's Independence Day. This is a playbook and we have now, I think,

0:50.9

seen it play out before. So first, let's jump back to February 24th,

0:55.5

1996 because you have to understand what the crime is before understanding what the charges or at least that's the way I operate.

1:02.2

Now there was an organization out of Miami called the Brothers to Rescue Cuban Exiles. It was a volunteer flying small Cessna's over the Florida Straits looking for rafters people on intertubes

1:12.6

makeshift boats trying to get out of Cuba the brothers to rescue would spot them and call them into the

1:18.6

Coast Guard no weapons no military affiliation is just humanitarian surveillance more or less

1:23.6

now in that February morning three of those Cessna 337s departed Opelaca Airport

1:28.3

and headed for the Straits. And then a Cuban mig 29 and MIG-23s intercepted these group of

1:34.0

Cessna 333s and they fired air-to-air missiles. Two of the planes were knocked out of the sky.

1:38.4

Now the international civilian aviation organization or ICAO, they investigated this and

1:43.9

confirmed that both aircraft were shot down in international airspace. They weren't in Cuban civilian aviation organization or ICAO, they investigated this and confirmed

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