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COMMENTARY: Deciphering Raúl Castro’s U.S. federal indictment

Given its targeted audience, I wasn’t surprised at all with how gleeful the Miami Herald’s editorial was about the issuing of a multi-count murder indictment of former Cuban president Raúl Castro.

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“This is a huge moment for Miami, 30 years in the making. That’s how long this community has waited – and waited – for justice in the Brothers to the Rescue attack,” the op-ed piece intoned. For good measure, it added the following: “The Raúl Castro indictment alone won’t accomplish true justice for the Cuban people. For that to happen, there must be serious steps that include a release of all political prisoners and a change in the country’s leadership to allow real democratic reforms.”

If that wasn’t enough, elements of the rabid anti-Castro Cuban-American community in Miami’s “Little Havana” could barely contain themselves with the news.

“I’m glad there’s a reason to finally execute him because he executed many people,” said one Cuban immigrant. Another man who left central Cuba in the 1990s put it this way: “We have been waiting for our government to seek justice even if it’s late, sooner or later justice will be served.........

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