AFPI Celebrates Indictment of Raul Castro

Washington, DC – The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) released the following statement from Joshua Trevino, AFPI Senior Director for the Western Hemisphere Initiative, in response to news that the U.S. Department of Justice has indicted ex-Cuban President Raúl Castro: 

"The America First Policy Institute, along with countless Cuban Americans, celebrates the Department of Justice's indictment of Raúl Castro for murdering American citizens. President Trump's Department of Justice is pursuing accountability for a regime that killed 4 Americans fleeing Cuba in 1996, and that has exported violence, repression, and instability throughout the Western Hemisphere for decades.

Just 90 miles off the coast of Florida, the Castro regime crushed the Cuban people through political repression, censorship, imprisonment, and economic destruction, and they spread anti-American influence to destabilize the hemisphere. It’s another example of how communist regimes only create corruption, instability, suffering, and criminality. Now, for at least one of those crimes, Castro will be held accountable."

Joshua Trevino, AFPI Senior Director for the Western Hemisphere Initiative, is available for interview. Click here to schedule.