The penultimate month of each year brings us an appointment to tremble with indignation and rage -like injustice, with fear- at the memory of Fidel's words in front of a crowd gathered to bid farewell to his loved ones and martyrs.
Almost half a century would seem enough to heal the wounds of that yesterday, but the hatred that caused the pain of that date in 1976 remains intact. The explosion of Cubana de Aviación Flight 455, with 73 people, in the waters of Barbados, originated the establishment of October 6 as the Day of the Victims of State Terrorism in Cuba.
Long before, however, countless violent actions changed motives of life and joy for mourning, and today, how many macabre plans await their moment under the shadow of impunity of the United States?
Its territory welcomes and allows the public activities of proven terrorists, many of them with Cuban blood and with the desire to plunge their homeland into chaos. Meanwhile, U.S. authorities point to several of the nations most affected by this scourge as its promoters.
In this investment game, the inclusion of the Greater of the Antilles in the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism, as of January 11, 2021, responds to the self-proclamation of the country of the Stars and Stripes as judge in a series of issues on which it should be held accountable in the dock.
Only the law of force sustains that aberration, and its own defenders acknowledged the inconsistency of their sandbox arguments when, in May, they excluded the island from those who do not fully cooperate with "U.S. counterterrorism efforts.
However, that announcement fell far short of eliminating the economic measures associated with remaining on the List, such as more than 1,000 refusals by foreign banks to provide services to island entities, recorded between January 2021 and February 2024.
Since the attack on the Twin Towers, the United States has transformed the fight against terrorism into an instrument for its interests. It has branded Cuba as a promoter of that evil, because it needs to invent and justify an enemy, but 48 years after the crime in Barbados, the world knows where the real terrorists are.
