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What to know: Cuba’s 1996 shootdown of planes carrying Americans Skip to content NOWCAST KCRA 3 News at 5pm Watch on Demand Menu Search News Policies News Local News 3 Investigates National News Consumer News Get the Facts Entertainment Health Project CommUNITY Dying to Ask Explore Outdoors Farm to Fork Friday Making Cents Upload Weather Radar Alerts Forecasting Our Future Wildfires Traffic Politics California Politics 360 Noticias EstrellaTV Sports High School Playbook Scoreboards Olympics Dignity Health Heart Hub (Ad) Advertise with KCRA About Newsletters News Team Station Contacts Editorials Community Women in Agriculture Very Local California-specific practice Titan TV Guide MeTV My58 Privacy Notice Notice at Collection Terms of Use SUBSCRIBE TO EMAIL Weather Search Press enter to search Type to Search Search location by ZIP code ZIP Advertisement What to know about Brothers to the Rescue and Cuba’s 1996 shootdown of two planes What to know about Brothers to the Rescue and Cuba’s 1996 shootdown of two planes This is what brought Cuba to its breaking point. For decades, Venezuela had been Havana's biggest oil supplier. Then overnight its president Nicolas Maduro was out of power. The dictator and terrors Maduro. is finally gone in Venezuela. People are free. Under US pressure, Caracas pulled the plug on its closest ally, which already had *** troubled economy. We would love to see the regime change. We would like to. That doesn't mean that we're going to make *** change, but we would love to see *** change. Once the Trump administration threatened tariffs on countries that send oil to the communist-run government, no one dared to come to its rescue. The impact on this island nation of 10 million people has been devastating. Blackouts stretching past 20 hours *** day became the new normal in many areas. And while at first there were endless lines at gas stations. They eventually cleared because there's no longer any gas. Food prices spiked and shortages soon followed. Everywhere you look there are piles of trash, breeding grounds for diseases and despair. That's less than $1. Add to that tourism grinding to *** halt and you have *** perfect storm. Cubans are no strangers to economic hardship. Following Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, they have endured America's embargo and their own government's disastrous economic missteps. But in my 14 years as *** foreign correspondent in this country, I've never seen Cubans suffering to such *** degree. The And that is something I'm hearing again and again from residents, with some unleashing their anger into the streets. Now US officials say they are seeking *** federal indictment against 94 year old former leader Raul Castro, still believed to wield great power. His handpicked successor says Cuba is preparing to defend against any US attack. It's the closest that Washington and Havana have come to outright confrontation since the 1962 Cuban Missile Cr

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