On February 24, 1996, three American civilian planes were flying in international airspace over the Florida Straits. The airplanes were part of the Brothers to the Rescue organization on a humanitarian mission to find and provide aid to Cubans who had escaped the island prison of Cuba on rickety rafts over the shark-infested waters that separate Cuba and the Florida Keys.
On that fateful day, acting on intelligence provided by its spies in the U.S., Cuba’s vile Castro dictatorship decided it was time to send a message. Fidel and Raul Castro scrambled MiGs to intercept the unarmed civilian aircraft and what has become one of the most heinous acts of cowardly terrorism in modern history, Castro himself gave the order to shoot down the defenseless airplanes and murder four Americans.
The video below is a recording of the disturbing, gut-wrenching, and infuriating radio calls made by the cowardly Cuban MiG pilots who screamed and cursed in glee over shooting down defenseless airplanes and murdering the pilots:
And in case anyone is wondering who the Cuban spies were that provided the Castro regime with the intelligence to carry out this act of international terrorism, they were fortunately captured, convicted, and sentenced to long prison terms for their acts of espionage and conspiracy to commit murder. Unfortunately, on December 17, 2014, President Obama traded them back to the Castro dictatorship in exchange for absolutely nothing.
Read more about this solemn anniversary at Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter.
This means no more to the usual suspects than the massacre of the tugboat 13 de Marzo, which included multiple children. In other words, it means nothing to them, except maybe collateral damage, if that.