Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel criticized a new U.S. State Department report this Monday that accuses Havana of having waged “a sustained campaign of subversion” against the North American country for nearly seven decades and supporting “lethal extremist attacks.”
“‘A thief believes everyone else is a thief‘. Nothing could be more accurate to characterize the State Department’s report against Cuba, promoted by one of the most corrupt officials in the current administration, with proven ties to drug traffickers and terrorists in Florida,” the Cuban president posted on Telegram, referring to the head of the agency, Marco Rubio.
“Cuba has never acted to harm the American people”
In that context, he stressed that if one State has spied on and attacked another to obscene levels, it has been the U.S. against Cuba, referring in particular to “the millions in funds that are annually allocated to regime change programs” in the Caribbean country. “History records criminal episodes, including plagues and diseases introduced into Cuba, the hemorrhagic dengue that claimed the lives of 101 children; the downing of a plane with 73 people on board; the bombs in hotels; the assassination attempts or the psychological warfare,” he recalled.
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The pretexts (and true objectives) of U.S. interventions in Latin America
Likewise, Díaz-Canel highlighted the U.S. blockade of the island and “the genocidal dimension it acquires with the current reinforcement and energy siege,” emphasizing that there is no greater act of subversion against a nation, conceived and officially described by the U.S. to “exhaust the people and crack their support for the Revolution”.
“Cuba has never acted to harm the American people, nor has it intended to affect the national security of the U.S. The transnational neo-McCarthyism that is being reinstated in the U.S., from a clearly fascist current, resorts to lies to generate pretexts upon which to sustain aggressions against Cuba and curtail civil liberties in the U.S.,” he concluded.
Threat to Cuba from the U.S.
- On January 29, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring a “national emergency” in the face of the alleged “unusual and extraordinary threat” that, according to Washington, Cuba poses to the security of the North American country and the region.
- Likewise, he announced the imposition of tariffs on countries that sell oil to the Caribbean nation, in addition to threats of retaliation against those who act against the White House’s executive order.
- On May 20, the U.S. justice system charged former Cuban leader Raúl Castro and five other people for allegedly causing the deaths of four people, including three U.S. citizens, in the context of the downing of two aircraft that violated the island’s airspace in 1996.
- The following month, he sanctioned the current ruler of Cuba and his wife, Lis Cuesta Peraza.
