El 20 de mayo, los fiscales del Gobierno de Estados Unidos imputaron a Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz, revolucionario cubano de toda la vida y expresidente de Cuba, por asesinato. Los cargos se derivan del derribo, en 1996, de dos aviones operados por un grupo terrorista contrarrevolucionario, «Hermanos al
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    On May 20, U.S. government prosecutors charged Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz, a lifelong Cuban revolutionary and former president of Cuba, with murder. The charges stem from the 1996 downing of two planes operated by a Miami-based counterrevolutionary terrorist group, “Brothers to the Rescue.” Four people died in the downing of the planes, which according to the U.S. Department of Justice was ordered by Raúl Castro, who will turn 95 on June 3.

    Mundo Obrero rejects this attempt to characterize Raúl as a murderer. We consider him a true revolutionary hero. Raúl was with his brother Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz when the 26th of July Movement attacked the Moncada barracks in 1953. This attack, considered the beginning of the Cuban Revolution, was brutally crushed, and Fidel, Raul, and others were sent to prison by the repressive, U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.