The former President of Cuba Raul Castro has now been indicted in the United States and charged with murder in relation to the 1996 shooting down of two planes over waters off the Cuban coast. Castro is 94 years old and while many assume it may be unlikely for him to serve his term, some believe that Donald Trump is setting the stage for a bigger move. Jon Decker, WOR White House Correspondent, spoke with Curtis Sliwa and Larry Mendte in the Morning about the indictment and what it reminds him of.
“It’s following exactly the same playbook that we saw play out with Venezuela; an indictment in the US, followed by a military action to remove Nicolas Maduro and his wife from that country, and now he’s awaiting trial right here in the US,” Decker told hosts Sliwa and Mendte. “That is the playbook that the Trump administration would like to see play out with Cuba as well.”
Decker explained why this Trump term seems to be much more aggressive than his first: “I’ve always wondered why the things that they’re doing in this second term, why didn’t they do these same things in the first term and the answer that I often hear from people is there were essentially some guardrails that existed in the first term.”
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