«We Gave Him, Damn It, an Objective Destroyed!»: the Sound of the Shooting Down of the Planes of Brothers to the Rescue in 1996 by Cuba

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“We gave him the balls!” one of the pilots is heard saying after the shooting down of the first of the planes. “Objective destroyed!” he celebrates. The recordings of the conversations between the members of Castro’s aviation and the control tower show blatantly the attack by Soviet-made MiG fighters on 24 February 1996 against three civilian apparatuses of Brothers to the Rescue coming from Florida and helping rafters fleeing misery in Cuba. Tw…