Decades of tensions with Cuba in the spotlight after deadly boat shooting
NBC News·2026-03-02 16:34
The deadly clash of 10 people from Miami on the high seas near Cuba this week turns out to be highly symbolic. >> Now to our other major story tonight, Cuba's shootown of two small planes piloted by Cuban exiles off of Venice coast. >> Almost 30 years to the day after Soviet made Cuban MIG fighter jets shot down two unarmed civilian Cessnes approaching Cuba piloted by Cuban Americans calling themselves the brothers to the rescue.The order to shoot down their plane came, NBC was told, from Fidel Castro himse ...