2026年5月21日 美国东部时间上午11:29 / 福克斯新闻网
代理司法部长托德·布兰奇称各国“绝不能被允许针对美国人、杀害他们却不受惩罚”
作者：阿什利·J·迪梅拉 福克斯新闻网
古巴前领导人劳尔·卡斯特罗于周三被起诉，罪名与1996年击落两架民用飞机并造成四人死亡的事件有关——这一指控再度引发外界对美国前总统贝拉克·奥巴马2016年高调访问哈瓦那之行的审视。
“奥巴马总统对古巴的政策不仅是政策失误，更是一场外交灾难——往好了说是天真，往坏了说是无能，更是对卡斯特罗政权统治下的异见人士、政治犯和受害者极为不尊重，”古巴裔美国人、前迈阿密市长弗朗西斯·苏亚雷斯对福克斯新闻数字频道表示。
“奥巴马将关系正常化视为开明的外交手段。这一做法给了残暴的独裁政权合法性，却几乎没有换回任何好处，”这位福克斯新闻专栏作家说道。“本届政府恢复了美古邦交，放松了制裁，为哈瓦那带来了一场公关胜利，但古巴人民依旧被困在同样的压迫体系中，美国也没有获得任何有意义的安全让步。”
美国司法部周三公开了一份补充起诉书，指控卡斯特罗及其五名同谋导致两架由迈阿密流亡团体运营的 unarmed 民用飞机上的四名美国公民死亡。古巴裔美国批评人士称，这起指控凸显了外界长期以来对奥巴马推动关系正常化的反对声音，他们认为此举为卡斯特罗政权赋予了合法性。
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2016年，奥巴马携家人前往古巴进行双边人权对话与经济议题磋商。(奇普·索莫德维拉/盖蒂图片社)
奥巴马2016年出访古巴，是其政府在数十年敌对状态后推动美古关系正常化的举措之一，他主张通过外交、经济与人权领域的接触，比孤立政策更能产生实效。此次访问期间，奥巴马与卡斯特罗一同在哈瓦那观看了坦帕湾光芒队与古巴国家队的棒球比赛。
“我此行前来，是为了埋葬美洲大陆冷战的最后残余，”奥巴马当年在哈瓦那说道。“我此行前来，是为了向古巴人民伸出友谊之手。”
检方提起诉讼后，奥巴马与卡斯特罗在2016年哈瓦那之行中拥抱的照片迅速在网上重新流传，在社交媒体上病毒式传播，并引发了网友的猛烈批评，他们抨击这位前总统与这位共产主义领导人的合影形象不当。
“劳尔当时还在庇护像乔安妮·切萨姆和吉列尔莫·莫拉莱斯这样的美国恐怖分子，真恶心，”福克斯新闻专栏作家保罗·毛罗在X平台上写道。
“巴拉克·奥巴马和共产主义者、罪犯们在一起时如鱼得水，”迈克·弗林将军在X平台上写道。
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得克萨斯州共和党参议员特德·克鲁兹转发了一张照片，并配上了尴尬表情符号。
现年94岁的卡斯特罗是古巴前领导人菲德尔·卡斯特罗的弟弟。劳尔·卡斯特罗于2008年至2018年担任古巴总统。
苏亚雷斯表示，奥巴马的古巴政策不仅在人权方面失败，在国家安全方面也同样失败，因为他没有意识到该政权构成的严重威胁。
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奥巴马与劳尔·卡斯特罗在哈瓦那观看棒球赛的照片在司法部公开起诉卡斯特罗后重新流传。(奇普·索莫德维拉/盖蒂图片社)
“这一政策丝毫没有遏制古巴作为美国敌人基地的角色，丝毫没有阻止这个岛国被用作针对我国海岸的情报和间谍平台，丝毫没有减少该政权对恐怖主义的支持，丝毫没有对抗古巴的贩毒国家行为或其在整个半球的破坏性影响，”苏亚雷斯说道。
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巴拉克·奥巴马总统与古巴领导人劳尔·卡斯特罗在奥巴马访问古巴期间站在一起。(盖蒂图片社)
奥巴马此次访问距离1996年事件已过去二十年，该事件曾成为美古关系的重大导火索，而特朗普政府当时对古巴采取了更为公开和强硬的立场。
特朗普宣布古巴问题进入国家紧急状态，威胁向向该共产主义政权供应石油的国家征收关税
“劳尔·卡斯特罗及其五名同谋参与了一场阴谋，最终古巴军用飞机向那些飞机发射导弹，杀害了四名美国人，”代理司法部长托德·布兰奇周三在起诉声明中说道。“各国及其领导人绝不能被允许针对美国人。杀害他们，却不受惩罚。”
菲德尔·卡斯特罗与弟弟劳尔·卡斯特罗于1996年12月2日在古巴哈瓦那参加游行。(斯文·克罗伊茨曼/曼波摄影/盖蒂图片社)
检方提起诉讼后，特朗普表示古巴“非常重要”。
“很多人遭受了极大的痛苦，其痛苦程度几乎无人能理解。我认为迈阿密的古巴裔社区，当然还有迈阿密以外的人，”特朗普说道。“那些背井离乡、家庭被毁的人们，对司法部长今天的所作所为深表感激，而他现在才开始行动。他一直在密切关注。我们始终将古巴放在心上。这非常重要。”
苏亚雷斯表示，对于古巴裔美国人来说，奥巴马与卡斯特罗套近乎是一种不尊重。
“这关乎支离破碎的家庭、被没收的财产、被压制的声音、被殴打的异见人士、被抛弃的良心犯，以及世世代代生活在恐惧之中的人们。在没有首先纪念那些受害者的情况下，就将卡斯特罗政府视为正常伙伴，这算不上外交，”他说道。
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特朗普此前曾开玩笑称，美国将“几乎立刻”“接管”古巴。
“古巴存在诸多问题。我们会先完成一件事。我喜欢善始善终，”他在本月补充道。
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系奥巴马办公室和白宫，寻求其对此次针对古巴之行的新一轮批评置评。
阿什利·J·迪梅拉为福克斯新闻数字频道报道政治新闻。
Obama’s baseball outing with Castro reignites fury after Trump DOJ drops hammer on Cuban leader
May 21, 2026 11:29am EDT / Fox News
Acting AG Todd Blanche says nations ‘cannot be permitted to target Americans, kill them, and not face accountability’
By Ashley J. DiMella Fox News
Former Cuban President Raúl Castro was indicted Wednesday in connection with the 1996 shootdown of two civilian aircraft that killed four people — reviving scrutiny of former President Barack Obama’s highly publicized 2016 trip to Havana.
“President Obama’s approach to Cuba was not merely a policy mistake. It was a diplomatic disaster — naive at best, incompetent at worst, and deeply disrespectful to the dissidents, political prisoners and victims who suffered under the Castro regime,”former Miami mayor Francis Suarez, who is Cuban-American, told Fox News Digital.
“Obama treated normalization as enlightened diplomacy. It handed legitimacy to a brutal dictatorship while asking little in return,” said the Fox News contributor. “The administration reopened relations, relaxed restrictions and gave Havana a public-relations victory, yet the Cuban people remained trapped under the same repressive system and the United States gained no meaningful security concessions.”
The Justice Department on Wednesday unsealed a superseding indictment charging Castro and five co-defendants over the deaths of four U.S. nationals aboard two unarmed civilian aircraft operated by the Miami-based exile group. Cuban-American critics said the charges underscore longstanding objections to Obama’s normalization push, which they argue gave legitimacy to the Castro regime.
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Obama went to Cuba with his family in 2016 for bilateral talks on human rights and economic discussions.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Obama traveled to Cuba in 2016 as part of his administration’s push to normalize U.S.-Cuba relations after decades of hostility, arguing that engagement on diplomacy, the economy and human rights would be more effective than isolation. The visit also included Obama and Castro attending a baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban national team in Havana.
“I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas,”Obama said from Havana that year. “I have come here to extend the hand of friendship to the Cuban people.”
Photos of Obama and Castro embracing during the 2016 Havana trip quickly resurfaced online after the indictment, going viral across social media and triggering a wave of criticism from users who blasted the optics of the former president’s relationship with the communist leader.
“While Raoul was harboring American terrorists like Joanne Chesimard and Guillermo Morales. Disgusting,” wrote Fox News contributor Paul Mauro on X.
“Barack Obama in his element with communists and criminals,” wrote General Mike Flynn on X.
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Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz reposted a photo with a cringe emoji.
Castro, 94, is the younger brother of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Raul Castro served as Cuba’s president from 2008 to 2018.
Suarez said that Obama’s Cuba policies were not just a human rights failure but a national security failure not understanding the serious threat the regime posed.
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Photos of Obama and Raul Castro at a baseball game in Havana resurface after the DOJ unsealed the Castro indictment.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“It did nothing to curtail Cuba’s role as a base for America’s enemies. It did nothing to confront the island’s use as an intelligence and spy platform so close to our shores. It did nothing to reduce the regime’s support for terrorism. It did nothing to confront Cuba’s narco-state behavior or its destabilizing influence throughout the hemisphere,” said Suarez.
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President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro stand together during Obama’s visit to Cuba.(Getty Images)
Obama’s trip came two decades after the 1996 incident, which became a major flashpoint in U.S.-Cuba relations, as the Trump administration adopted a more public and hardline approach toward Cuba.
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“Raúl Castro and five co-defendants participated in a conspiracy that ended with Cuban military aircraft firing missiles at those planes and killing four Americans,” said acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday during the indictment announcement. “Nations and their leaders cannot be permitted to target Americans. Kill them, and not face accountability.”
Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro attend a parade in Havana, Cuba, on Dec. 2, 1996.(Sven Creutzmann/Mambo Photography/Getty Images)
Following the indictment, Trump said Cuba is “very important.”
“A lot of people have suffered very big, very, very at levels that few people would understand. And I think the Cuban population of Miami, and certainly beyond Miami,” said Trump. “People that came there that were decimated, whose families were ruined, appreciate what the Attorney General just did today, and he’s just doing it now. He’s just watching it. We have Cuba on our mind. Very important.”
Suarez said that for Cuban Americans, Obama cozying up with Castro was disrespectful.
“It is about families torn apart, property confiscated, voices silenced, dissidents beaten, prisoners of conscience abandoned and generations forced to live under fear. To treat the Castro government as a normal partner without first honoring those victims was not diplomacy,” he said.
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Trump has previously joked the U.S. would be “taking over” Cuba “almost immediately.”
“Cuba’s got problems. We’ll finish one first. I like to finish a job,” he added this month.
Fox News Digital reached out to Obama’s office and the White House for additional comment on the renewed criticisms of the trip.
Ashley J. DiMella reports on politics for Fox News Digital.
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