{"id":267517,"date":"2026-05-29T09:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=267517"},"modified":"2026-05-29T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:00:18","slug":"raul-castro-could-face-fate-similar-to-nicolas-maduro-us-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/267517\/","title":{"rendered":"Ra\u00fal Castro could face fate similar to Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, US official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>In an interview with Fox News, Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche expressed readiness to do everything possible to ensure that one of the leaders of the Cuban Revolution, army general Ra&uacute;l Castro, is prosecuted in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We need Castro here, and he needs to stand trial. We will do everything to bring him here,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Blanche referenced the case of Venezuelan President Nicol&aacute;s Maduro, describing a US operation involving his capture as an &ldquo;extreme example.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Usually, we do this through extradition and cooperation with international partners,&rdquo; the official added.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Justice has previously charged Castro with involvement in the killing of four people, the destruction of two aircraft, and an attempt to kill US citizens.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Fox News, Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche expressed readiness to do everything possible to ensure that one of the leaders of the Cuban Revolution, army general Ra&uacute;l Castro, is prosecuted in the United States. &ldquo;We need Castro here, and he needs to stand trial. We will do everything to bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":267421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267518,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267517\/revisions\/267518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}