2026年5月23日 美国东部时间早上6:00 / 福克斯新闻
联邦官员还拘留了古巴军事控股企业GAESA的负责人，该实体控制着古巴70%的经济
文/查尔斯·克赖茨，福克斯新闻
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佛罗里达州共和党众议员卡洛斯·希门尼斯接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时，就美国司法部起诉古巴独裁者劳尔·卡斯特罗一事发表了看法，该起诉与上世纪90年代佛罗里达海峡一架人道主义飞机被击落事件有关。
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曾亲身经历古巴独裁政权恐怖统治的美国国会众议员告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，劳尔·卡斯特罗遭到联邦起诉一事，很可能在古巴政权内部引发恐慌，该国官员们正密切关注今年其他独裁者的下场。
尽管自2021年米格尔·迪亚斯-卡内尔接任以来，劳尔·卡斯特罗已不再是古巴的正式领导人，但佛罗里达州众议院国土安全委员会委员希门尼斯表示，劳尔对哈瓦那权力核心的掌控仍比古巴现政府更牢固。
希门尼斯指出，此次起诉虽然迟到了很久，但或许能为1996年两架人道主义飞机在佛罗里达海峡被击落事件中遇难的美国人家属带来一定程度的正义。
希门尼斯表示，卡斯特罗蓄意针对的是一个几乎每天都在海上搜寻试图横渡90英里海域、前往他如今所代表的国会选区（从南达德县延伸至佛罗里达群岛）的古巴难民的组织。
奥巴马与卡斯特罗的棒球聚会在特朗普司法部对古巴领导人采取行动后再度引发众怒
费德尔·卡斯特罗与弟弟劳尔·卡斯特罗1996年12月2日出席古巴哈瓦那的一场游行。（斯文·克罗伊茨曼/曼波摄影/盖蒂图片社）
“我们有他承认行凶的录音，”希门尼斯在古巴独立日当天谈及被起诉的卡斯特罗时说道。
“我们绝不能容忍任何政权在任何地方杀害美国公民。”
当被问及古巴是否会出现类似委内瑞拉的行动——美国军方救出了被起诉的独裁者，希门尼斯表示，尽管各方在意识形态和犯罪行为上相似，但每个情况都有所不同。
“我认为总统会让这件事酝酿一段时间，同时继续对该政权施加我们一直以来的压力，”他说道，他同意同为迈阿密人的国务卿马可·卢比奥的观点，即卡斯特罗/迪亚斯-卡内尔政权正因其自身的失败而走向崩溃。
他表示，在美国国内逮捕政权盟友以及周三对卡斯特罗提出指控的背景下，这种不安情绪正实实在在地击垮着古巴政府。
“古巴全国会出现数小时的停电，所以我认为唐纳德·特朗普总统会让这件事再酝酿一阵。我确信他正在为各种突发情况制定计划。他现在已经有合法权力出手逮捕卡斯特罗，但我认为他不会立刻这么做。”
与委内瑞拉或伊朗不同，美国在古巴拥有军事基地——关塔那摩湾。
但希门尼斯表示，尽管关塔那摩湾能发挥作用，但并非万全之策。希门尼斯最近时隔60多年首次重返故土，当时他6岁就逃离了古巴，随后参观了关塔那摩湾基地。
“以防万一，”他说道。“如果发生什么事，古巴人民起义——这样劳尔·卡斯特罗就会彻夜难眠；他永远不知道我们的直升机会不会来抓他。”
他表示，目前最好的办法是为该政权营造持续的心理压力环境，让他们“时刻警惕，而非只顾内部维稳——想着山姆大叔就在外面，乘着大型航母漂浮在海面上”。
希门尼斯称，美国政府这次“似乎是动真格的了——这是首次有美国政府对卡斯特罗家族成员采取此类行动”。
在之前的发言中，希门尼斯提到了谋杀事件发生后不久，国务卿马德琳·奥尔布赖特在橘子碗体育场参加的一场活动，当时克林顿政府承诺会采取应对措施。
因此，希门尼斯表示，冒着生命危险走上街头抗议的古巴民众或许会感受到真正的变革正在到来，而且与往届政府不同，联邦政府这次会“支持他们”。
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古巴前副总统何塞·马查多与独裁者劳尔·卡斯特罗在古巴露面。（亚米尔·拉赫/盖蒂图片社）
“（该政权）不像伊朗那样大规模屠杀数千人，但他们确实将数千人投入监狱；对他们施以酷刑……我们看看古巴国内民众会作何反应。”
本届政府还有一位立场强硬的古巴问题鹰派人物卢比奥，他是古巴移民的后代。
采访结束后不久，迈阿密的联邦官员拘留了GAESA的负责人，希门尼斯称该实体是哈瓦那真正的权力支柱。国土安全部随后撤销了阿迪斯拉斯特雷斯-莫雷拉的绿卡。
希门尼斯表示，迪亚斯-卡内尔不过是个傀儡，他指出卡斯特罗掌控着GAESA，因此才是真正的掌权者。
希门尼斯打趣道，他的迈阿密同僚马里奥·迪亚斯-巴拉特众议员曾指出，古巴的“总统”基本都毫无意义——当时他问另一名采访者是否听说过除卡斯特罗之外的古巴前总统。
迪亚斯-巴拉特还提到，他的兄弟、前佛罗里达州共和党众议员林肯·迪亚斯-巴拉特曾在1996年致信克林顿政府，要求采取行动，但最终不了了之。
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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并肩站立。（盖蒂图片社）
“就GAESA而言，它由卡斯特罗家族控制下的军官管理，控制着古巴70%的经济……这表明古巴国内存在一个国中之国，”希门尼斯说道。
他认为，GAESA坐拥约160亿美元资产，这让该政权自我暴富，而普通古巴人却面临经济崩溃，私营企业也纷纷倒闭。
卢比奥在一份西班牙语声明中指出，古巴之所以被本国政府“洗劫一空”，根源在于GAESA，而非所谓的美国石油封锁。
就在希门尼斯和卢比奥发表上述言论之际，国会对起诉行动的支持已经升温。
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“劳尔·卡斯特罗——他杀害了美国人，我很高兴他被起诉了，”斯科特说道，他补充道，最近一名16岁少年因抱怨家中断电而被监禁——他认同起义或许即将到来。
代表卡莱奥乔美国古巴侨民群体的佛罗里达州共和党众议员玛丽亚·萨拉萨尔表示，她的社区等待了65年、历经10位美国总统，终于向卡斯特罗家族传递了这条“讯息”。
“是时候让他们滚蛋了。”
如今，随着卡斯特罗遭到起诉，再加上希门尼斯、迪亚斯-巴拉特等人的预测，下一个古巴独立日到来时，这个日子或许将拥有全新的意义。
查尔斯·克赖茨是福克斯新闻数字频道记者。
他于2013年加入福克斯新闻，担任撰稿人和制作助理。
查尔斯负责报道福克斯新闻数字频道的媒体、政治和文化领域。
查尔斯是宾夕法尼亚州本地人，毕业于天普大学，获广播新闻学学士学位。新闻线索可发送至charles.creitz@fox.com。
Havana regime in suspense after Castro indictment with Trump pressure on, says Cuban-born GOP Rep.
May 23, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News
Feds also detained the head of GAESA, Cuba’s military-led entity that controls 70% of the island’s economy
By Charles Creitz, Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6396318058112
Cuban-born rep: Castro ‘won’t sleep very well’ with latest Trump move, current despot a ‘figurehead’
Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., talked to Fox News Digital about the Justice Department’s indictment of Cuban despot Raul Castro in connection with the downing of a humanitarian plane in the Strait of Florida in the 1990s.
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Cuban despot Raul Castro’s federal indictment is likely sparking paranoia inside the regime as officials look at what has happened to other despots this year, the one member of Congress who personally experienced the dictatorship’s terror told Fox News Digital.
Though no longer Cuba’s formal leader since Miguel Diaz-Canel took over in 2021, Raul Castro still holds a tighter grip on the levers of power in Havana than the island’s established government, House Homeland Security Committee member Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., said.
Gimenez said the indictment, while long overdue, could bring some measure of justice to the families of Americans killed in the 1996 downing of two humanitarian aircraft in the Strait of Florida.
Gimenez said Castro intentionally targeted a group that searched the sea almost daily for Cuban refugees attempting the 90-mile trip to the congressional district he now represents, spanning South Dade to the Keys.
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Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro attend a parade in Havana, Cuba, on Dec. 2, 1996.(Sven Creutzmann/Mambo Photography/Getty Images)
“We have him on tape saying [he did it],” Gimenez said of Castro — indicted on Cuban Independence Day.
“We cannot tolerate any regime murdering American citizens wherever they may be.”
Asked whether Cuba may see a mission similar to the one in Venezuela, where U.S. forces extracted an indicted dictator, Gimenez said every situation is different even if the actors are ideologically and criminally similar.
“I think that the president’s going to let this kind of percolate for a while and also continue the pressure on the regime that we’ve been exerting,” he said, agreeing with fellow Miamian Secretary of State Marco Rubio that the Castro/Diaz-Canel regime is collapsing under its own failure.
The suspense — coming amid additional arrests of regime allies stateside and Castro’s charges Wednesday — is proverbially killing the Cuban government, he said.
“The island goes dark for hours and so I think President Donald Trump’s going to let it percolate for a while. I’m sure that he is drawing up plans for every contingency. He now has the legal authority to come in and try to arrest him, but I don’t think he is going to do that right away.”
Unlike Venezuela or Iran, America has a home base in Cuba — Guantanamo Bay.
But Gimenez — who recently visited the compound, and therefore his homeland, for the first time in more than 60 years since fleeing at age 6 — said the geopolitics are such that Gitmo is helpful but not the end-all.
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Guantanamo lies on the opposite side of Cuba from Havana, so U.S. assets would need to be positioned closer in the event of any incursion.
“Just in case,” he said. “If something were to happen and the people rise up – so that Raul Castro doesn’t sleep very well at night; not knowing if our helicopters are coming for him.”
He said the best idea at present is creating an environment of constant psychological pressure for the regime — so that they are “looking out and [not] inward as much – thinking that somehow, Uncle Sam is just outside there, floating in the water with a big aircraft carrier.”
Gimenez said the U.S. government appears “actually serious this time – the first time any administration is taking the kind of action against one of the Castros.”
In prior comments, Gimenez referenced an Orange Bowl event attended by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright shortly after the murders, where the Clinton administration promised a response.
Therefore, protesters risking their lives in the streets may feel real change is afoot, Gimenez said, and that unlike in past administrations, the feds will “have their back.”
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Former Cuban Vice President Jose Machado and dictator Raul Castro are seen in Cuba.(Yamil Lage/Getty Images)
“[The regime doesn’t] wholesale kill thousands of people [like Iran] but they do put thousands of people in prison; torture them … Let’s see what’s going to happen inside the island with the Cuban people themselves.”
The administration also has a vocal Havana hawk in Rubio, the son of Cuban emigres.
Shortly after the interview, the feds in Miami detained the head of GAESA, Cuba’s public-private military-led entity that Gimenez said is the true lever of power in Havana. DHS then revoked Adys Lastres-Morera’s green card.
Diaz-Canel is a figurehead, Gimenez said, noting Castro leads GAESA and therefore is the end-all.
Gimenez quipped that his Miami colleague Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart made the point that “presidents” of Cuba essentially mean nothing – when he asked another interviewer if they had heard of a past president not named Castro.
Diaz-Balart also noted that his brother, former Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., wrote to the Clinton administration in 1996 demanding action, but none came.
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President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro stand together during Obama’s visit to Cuba.(Getty)
“So, in the case of GAESA, it is run by military officers under the control of the Castros [and] controls 70% of Cuba’s economy… It shows you that there is a government inside a government,” Gimenez said.
He argued the estimated $16 billion held by GAESA self-enriches the regime while ordinary Cubans face economic collapse and private industry fails.
In a Spanish-language statement, Rubio noted GAESA is the reason the island has been “plundered” by its government – not from any alleged U.S. oil blockade.
As Gimenez and Rubio spoke, congressional support for the indictment was already building.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told Fox News military intervention in Havana should never be off the table.
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“Raul Castro – he’s killed Americans, and I’m so glad he’s indicted,” Scott said, adding that a 16-year-old was recently imprisoned for complaining his family lost electricity — agreeing an uprising may be in the offing.
Rep. Maria Salazar, R-Fla., who represents the U.S.-Cuban diaspora in Calle Ocho, said her community waited 65 years and 10 U.S. presidents to express this “message to the Castros.”
“It’s time for you guys to go.”
Now, with Castro’s indictment and the predictions of Gimenez, Diaz-Balart and others, Cuban Independence Day may have new meaning by the next time it passes on the calendar.
Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
He joined Fox News in 2013 as a writer and production assistant.
Charles covers media, politics and culture for Fox News Digital.
Charles is a Pennsylvania native and graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism. Story tips can be sent to charles.creitz@fox.com.