June 19, 2026
[weekly newsletter about Cuba from the Belly Of The Beast news collective. Their videos can be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

Why did the Cuban government shoot down two Brothers to the Rescue planes in 1996?

In an exclusive interview, Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández speaks with René González, an intelligence agent and member of the Cuban Five who flew Brothers to the Rescue planes in the early 1990s.

González recounts how he infiltrated the group, what he witnessed from the inside, and why he believes Raúl Castro’s indictment over the shoot-down is a made-in-Miami pretext to justify an invasion.

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