Raul Castro, Ah, the gate!

By: Pedro Corzo - 15/03/2026

Share:     

It would be something like divine justice, that the main prosecutor accusing Castro's totalitarianism should be tried by a US court, knowing that Raul was the most faithful and efficient operator that Fidel had during his entire malevolent existence.

The two committed crimes against the democratic countries of the hemisphere and directly against the United States on countless occasions, such as the downing in international waters of the Brothers to the Rescue planes that caused the death of four activists, three American citizens and one resident.

We are truly pleased that the Florida Attorney General has launched an investigation into the downing of the two aircraft, a crime that would not have occurred had Raúl Castro, then Cuba's Minister of Defense, not authorized it. Furthermore, we suggest to the authorities that it would be highly advisable to bring to light other crimes in which the perpetrator of the San Juan Hill shooting was involved.

For example, in 1993, Raúl Castro was investigated by another Florida grand jury for his involvement in drug trafficking activities; however, the investigation was closed due to a lack of political will on the part of President Clinton's administration. He was also accused of leading a conspiracy to smuggle tons of cocaine into the United States, with Cuba as the platform.

The Castro brothers supplied weapons and explosives to radical extremist groups, fostered espionage networks such as the Wasp Network, seduced several US officials to spy on their own country, not to mention that they are among the pioneers in organizing, with the backing of a government structure, the introduction and distribution of narcotics in the territory of the United States.

Furthermore, the system that both brothers imposed in Cuba implemented a campaign of subversion and terrorism that affected the entire hemisphere with repercussions in this country, including the assassinations of US government officials, among others, Dan Mitrione in Uruguay and the ambassador in Guatemala, John Gordon Mein, executed by subversive groups trained and supplied by the Castro regime.

The Mitrione case was the most scandalous. A Castro agent named Manuel Hevia Cosculluela provided information about Mitrione to the Tupamaros, the terrorist group that carried out the crime.

A sector of the Cuban exile community has always been in favor of bringing Fidel and Raul Castro to justice internationally, an effort without positive results because so far, despite the evidence, no government has shown the political will to prosecute these criminals.

Raul Castro, besides being an executioner, served as prosecutor in all the important legal proceedings carried out by the Castro regime. He orchestrated a sham trial that ended in the 71 executions at Loma de San Juan on January 11, 1959, and fulfilled the same role in the trial against Huber Matos and his companions in December of that same year.

Another process in which he assumed the role of prosecutor, a serious approach to Robespierre, was in the so-called "micro faction", 1967.

That was a major scandal. The accused, more than thirty of them, were sentenced to different prison terms, among them a man who, like few others, understood the damage that the new system would cause to Cubans, Ricardo Bofill Pagés, who years later, while in prison, would lay the groundwork for promoting new forms of struggle against totalitarianism.

The constant infighting within Castro's regime, veritable hyena fights, led to the 1968 dismissal of Ramiro Valdés, the once all-powerful and bloodthirsty Minister of the Interior, apparently as a consequence of his rivalry with the pharaoh's brother. Nevertheless, "Ramirito" was irreplaceable in his role as a hardliner, which is why he has never ceased to be among the most notorious executioners of the system.

It is appropriate to acknowledge that the bloodiest purge of Castroism, without mentioning the numerous and inexplicable deaths of generals and doctors that occurred in recent years, took place in 1989, when General Arnaldo Ochoa and three other high-ranking officers of the armed forces were sentenced to death and shot.

Unfortunately, the Cuban people are not in a position to judge their executioners, so let us hope that they will be prosecuted by our friends.

«The opinions published herein are the sole responsibility of its author».