Two new acts of vandalism aimed at sowing terror among the Cuban people, in exchange for money, were denounced on Cuban television, when common features of both actions, one carried out in Pinar del Río and the other in Villa Clara, were revealed,.
On August 16, in Minas de Matahambre, a town in the westernmost province, a fire broke out in Las Minas cabaret, built with a roof covered with palm tree branches and masonry walls. The arsonist, whose testimony was transmitted, said that he had been guided from the U.S. by Liván González Valdés, who paid him 150 dollars.
He also confessed that González Valdés, through WhatsApp, had encouraged him to develop other criminal actions, such as putting up counterrevolutionary posters, for which he received one hundred dollars; and also "he wanted to burn the ice cream parlor located in the Vietnam Heroico neighorhood, he wanted to throw a cable to the power line. Those were options he gave me to do in exchange for money. He wanted to poison the water tanks at Loma de la Mina, set fire to the Emincar warehouses, set fire to the forest rangers' tower," said the interviewee.
In Villa Clara, on September 25, they set fire to the Caney de Isabela de Sagua. Nilo Christian Denis Cruz, one of the main people involved in the act, confessed that a month earlier his cousin Dubier Perez Mendez had offered him money for doing it.
"I was drunk and I went to the back of the Caney in the early hours of the morning, I set it on fire and ran away. I took that money and gave it back to the police, it is something that I will never do again in my life," he said.
Regarding this fact, a publication of Razones de Cuba points out that, when the Caney caught fire, there were people inside the premises who could have been injured or died. The economic damage amounts to 250,000 pesos.
These two events, promoted and paid for y those who believe only in their pockets and in the good business of feeding hatred from the United States, are expressions of fascism reflected in the physical and digital spaces, and motivated by instigators who remain unpunished in foreign territory.
Another common element of these acts is that the effective popular response has allowed the investigation and clarification of most of the acts of this type.(Redacción Nacional)
