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The Trump administration has unsealed a federal indictment charging 94-year-old former Cuban president Raúl Castro and five co-defendants with murder and conspiracy for ordering the 1996 shootdown of two unarmed civilian planes that killed four people, three of them U.S. citizens. The charges, filed in Miami's Southern District of Florida after three decades of prosecutorial effort, arrive amid a broader U.S. pressure campaign against Cuba that includes an oil blockade and open discussion of military options — raising questions about whether the indictment serves justice, geopolitics, or both.