<description>&lt;p&gt;In a major escalation of its months long “maximum pressure” campaign, the United States announced it has indicted Raúl Castro, former president of Cuba, over the downing of two planes flown by a group of Cuban exiles targeting the regime in 1996.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was a move officials within the Trump administration had been signalling would happen after the director of the CIA met with Cuban officials in Havana.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We speak to Peter Kornbluh, an author and senior analyst at the National Security Archive specializing in Cuba, about whether this signals a Venezuela-style strike on the country.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For transcripts of Front Burner, please visit: &lt;a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

In a major escalation of its months long “maximum pressure” campaign, the United States announced it has indicted Raúl Castro, former president of Cuba, over the downing of two planes flown by a group of Cuban exiles targeting the regime in 1996. It was a move officials within the Trump administration had been signalling would happen after the director of the CIA met with Cuban officials in Havana.&nbsp; We speak to Peter Kornbluh, an author and senior analyst at the National Security Archive specializing in Cuba, about whether this signals a Venezuela-style strike on the country. For transcripts of Front Burner, please visit: <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts</a>

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Will the U.S. invade Cuba?

Will the U.S. invade Cuba?

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