From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The United States indicts Cuban leader Raul Castro, the brother of the late revolutionary

Fidel Castro for murder as it increases pressure on the Cuban regime, and the USS Nimitz heads to the Caribbean.

What does Donald Trump have planned for Cuba and are the dictatorships days number?

That's our subject for today on Potomac Watch. Welcome, everybody. I'm Paul as you go of the Wall Street Journal

opinion pages and here with the Wall Street Journal's America's columnist, Mary Anastasia O'Grady,

who has followed Cuba for more than two decades and is really the foremost chronicler of what

is happening there in the American press. Welcome, Mary. Let's start with the indictment

of Rao Castro. He's no longer in the government. He's in his 90s, but he did run the country

for years, and he is alleged to have given the order to shoot two Cessna aircraft out of the

sky in the 1990s, which is the basis for this week's murder

indictment.

Let's listen to the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche.

Many families here know the cost of oppression.

I've heard stories over the past week and past months, every one of them heartbreaking.

They know that the pain caused by the regime did not

stop at the island's shores. And today's indictment, while it does not bring back the murdered

victims, it makes a statement. The United States government has not forgotten these innocent men

who were shot out of the sky.

And as in every criminal case, the defendants are presumed innocent and proven guilty by a jury of their peers.

But today, the Department of Justice has taken an important step and brought this indictment.

Well, Mary, the four people were killed in those shootdowns,

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