Yeah…we get the same horse shit up here from Carney as he moves numbers around in the columns, then claims that his deficits are lower than Trudeau (some of them) in the smoke and mirrors. We ‘really’ haven’t had a balanced budget in over a decade, but it is what it is.
And all those scientists that were muzzled under non disclosure are still under non disclosure , imagine that .
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Former Cuban president Raúl Castro indicted in U.S. on murder, conspiracy charges — The Washington Post
The charges, likely to remain symbolic, are related to the deadly downing of two planes in 1996 and come as the Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure on Cuba.apple.news
This is from 30 years ago, but it’s just coming up now?US charges former Cuban president Raúl Castro over 1996 downing of planes
Castro and five others are charged with conspiracy to kill US nationals, murder, and destruction of aircraft
Because…the extraordinary indictment, which was returned by a grand jury in April and had been kept under seal, comes as the Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure to try to force political turnover in communist Cuba, and it is the latest example of the administration using its Justice Department to bolster foreign policy aims? So…?
I’m sure as hell not justifying murder, but the timing is just curious. Top Justice Department officials announced the indictment Wednesday in Miami, the heart of the Cuban exile community because…?
Castro, 94, took over the presidency of Cuba when his brother, Fidel Castro, stepped down in 2008, and it’s a decade too late to charge Fidel who died in 2016, so Raúl three decades after the fact, now that it’s politically expedient to do so, will have to do?
With Fidel’s death in 2016, Raúl Castro became the island’s preeminent revolutionary hero. Although he left the presidency in 2018, Castro remained first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba until 2021, and now its 2026. Back in 1996 though, Raúl Castro was Cuba's armed forces minister.
It is unlikely that Castro will be extradited to the U.S. to appear in court and face the charges. Absent Cuba’s cooperation, the indictment is likely to remain symbolic unless the U.S. takes aggressive action to remove Castro from Cuba
Acting attorney general Todd Blanche said that the indictment was more than just a gesture, adding that he expected Castro to appear in U.S. court. He deflected questions about whether there would be military intervention to bring him out of Cuba
“We expect that he will show up here by his own will or another way,” Blanche said. Dude is 94yrs old. Doubt he’s planning a trip to an American show trial.
The downed planes were flown by members of Brothers to the Rescue, a U.S.-based humanitarian group formed in 1991 by Cuban exiles in Miami to patrol the Florida Strait in search of those fleeing the island and notify the U.S. Coast Guard to rescue them.
The group was founded by Jose Basulto, a veteran of the failed 1961 invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs by exile fighters organized and trained by the CIA. There had been a massive exodus of tens of thousands of Cubans traveling to Florida on small boats, rafts and inner tubes in the early 1990s, though the number dropped after the Clinton administration in 1994 ordered the Coast Guard to intercept and detain those caught at sea
The group’s interests also came to include harassing the Cuban government, sometimes flying over Cuban airspace and dropping leaflets urging residents to rise against the regime. Their campaigns had led to numerous complaints from Havana and assurances from the Clinton administration that it would stop.The deadly plane attack at the centre of Castro's indictment
Raúl Castro was armed forces minister when Cuban military jets shot down two civilian planes operated by exiles of the communist country.
Google AI says that ‘Brothers to the Rescue’ did not enter Cuban airspace on February 24, 1996.
Justice Department charges Raul Castro with murder — NBC News
A Florida grand jury indicted Raul Castro, the former leader of Cuba’s Communist regime, with murder and other charges for the 1996 shootdown of American humanitarian airplanes. NBC News Gabe Gutierrez reports.
According to U.S. authorities and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) investigation, the unarmed Cessna planes were flying over international waters when they were intercepted and shot down by Cuban MiG fighter jets.
Where over international waters? The first plane was apparently destroyed 9 nautical miles outside Cuban territorial airspace, and the second was shot down apparently 10 nautical miles outside it, it says. So were they on the way to Cuba or away from it? Does it matter in the end?
The Cuban government has consistently maintained that the planes had previously violated Cuban airspace and were in the country's airspace when they were intercepted and warned, but in the end, does that matter either?
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Cuba has never formally declared war or launched a conventional military attack against the United States. America has engaged in military attacks, armed interventions, and direct invasions of Cuba multiple times. Who’s a threat to whom?
(President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev publicly agreed that the USSR would dismantle and remove its offensive missile sites in Cuba under United Nations verification. In return, the US made a public declaration and commitment never to invade Cuba
- The Spanish-American War (1898): U.S. forces landed in Cuba, defeated the Spanish fleet at Santiago de Cuba, and initiated a military occupation that lasted until 1902.
- The First Occupation (1906–1909): The U.S. sent thousands of Marines to intervene in Cuban political affairs and quell internal rebellions.
- Subsequent Interventions (1912 and 1917–1922): U.S. Marines were repeatedly deployed and engaged in armed interventions to stabilize internal affairs and protect American business interests.
- The Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961): A CIA-funded and directed paramilitary group of Cuban exiles launched a failed amphibious attack to overthrow Fidel Castro's government.
Has Cuba indicted Trump or his secretary of war with respect to the above?Thirty-two Cubans killed during US attack on Venezuela
Cuba's president said military and intelligence operatives were providing protection to captured leader Nicolás Maduro.
Rubio says Cuba is threat to US as Havana accuses him of 'lies' — BBC News
Cuba's foreign minister accused Rubio of trying to "instigate a military aggression".
Raul? The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and its accompanying warships entered the Caribbean Sea Wednesday as part of an apparent effort by the Trump administration to apply pressure on Cuba from all directions.
(President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev publicly agreed that the USSR would dismantle and remove its offensive missile sites in Cuba under United Nations verification. In return, the US made a public declaration and commitment never to invade Cuba
Gillon is a Dallas-based firm that belongs to the family of Ray Washburne, a real-estate executive who served in the first Trump administration; neither firm responded to a request for comment.
Anyway, Cobalt and Nickel minerals are used in manufacturing, including of cellphones and car batteries, and both help explain why the Trump administration is eager to bring Cuba to heel, one way or another. Trump has not been seeking to normalize relations with the post-Castro regime so much as force a conditional surrender.
In that case, the Trump administration might find that its drive to humble a tiny nearby regime hands further advantage to its chief adversaries in a much bigger, more important battle, but at least the evil Canadians are out.
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For many months, the U.S. has enforced a blockade that stops Venezuelan and Mexican oil shipments from reaching Cuba. Factories have gone idle. Public transportation sputters. Long lines for basic goods stretch through Havana. Blackouts are commonplace. President Miguel Díaz-Canel described the U.S. sanctions as “collective punishment” on the Cuban people.Sherritt International - Wikipedia
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The largest foreign mining operation in Cuba is the Moa Joint Venture, which is a massive nickel and cobalt mining operation. The country and nationality of this operation are Canadian, primarily operated by the Toronto-based resource company Sherritt International.
A U.S. presidential decree imposed new sanctions on companies doing business with the regime, significantly expanding the comprehensive embargo and making it akin to those aimed at countries such as Iran, Russia, and North Korea.
Within a week, Sherritt said that it would dissolve its partnership with the state-owned General Nickel Company, ending the Moa Nickel joint venture and other interests in electricity generation and natural gas.
Then, last week, Sherritt announced it would only suspend its joint venture in Cuba and was in talks to sell a controlling ownership stake in Sherritt to Gillon Capital, with the apparent blessing of the U.S. State and Treasury Departments.
Such a deal, if it goes through, could potentially bring the saga of Cuba’s mineral riches full circle by returning nickel and cobalt mines to U.S. ownership at a time when they have acquired a new strategic importance.
Such a deal might also pave the way for other American businesses; Trump is enamored of the opportunities a pliant Cuba could offer domestic businesses, several U.S. officials told me, much as it did in the Fulgencio Batista era, leading up to the 1959 revolution.
The Bay of Pigs happened in April 1961 when the U.S. government financed and directed a failed invasion of Cuba by 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles. The primary goal was to overthrow Fidel Castro’s communist government, stop the spread of Soviet influence in Latin America, and install a U.S.-friendly administration.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was caused by the secret Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orchestrated this move to deter future U.S. invasions of communist Cuba—following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion—and to counterbalance the U.S. missiles previously stationed in Italy and Turkey.
View attachment 34517Anyway, Cobalt and Nickel minerals are used in manufacturing, including of cellphones and car batteries, and both help explain why the Trump administration is eager to bring Cuba to heel, one way or another. Trump has not been seeking to normalize relations with the post-Castro regime so much as force a conditional surrender.
The Trump administration blew up a Canadian company’s business in order to tighten the screws on the regime. But Cuba may be tempted to respond by offering shares in one of its crown jewels to an ally, or at least threatening to do so.
How to Break Cuba — The Atlantic
Inside the Trump administration’s high-stakes fight over the island’s strategic minerals
“This is a good chance for China and Russia to step back in,” Diego von Vacano, a political-science professor and Latin America specialist at Texas A&M University, told me.
View attachment 34518In that case, the Trump administration might find that its drive to humble a tiny nearby regime hands further advantage to its chief adversaries in a much bigger, more important battle, but at least the evil Canadians are out.
