Raúl Castro's Indictment Is a Pretext for War

Violence, including terrorism, against Cuba has long been tolerated in Washington; Cuba's response to it has not. That double standard is once again on full display as the Trump administration moves to indict former Cuban President Raúl Castro for the shootdown of two planes thirty years ago — even as the US military regularly blows up boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, killing nearly 200 people with impunity.