Havana – Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero today denounced the subversion and economic manipulation against the island through a self-titled independent publication supported by U.S. government institutions.
The head of the Caribbean nation's government revealed on social media the link between El Toque and the National Endowment for Democracy, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the State Department, "which confirms that it is an instrument of subversion against Cuba and economic manipulation."
Later in the same message, he added: "Its objective is very clear: to depress the income level of the people."
In this way, the prime minister added his voice to that of other Cuban authorities, led by President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who have exposed the financing of digital media to accentuate the depreciation of the Cuban peso.
Marrero, in another post on Sunday, assured that as part of the Government Program, the Central Bank of Cuba, "in coordination with other agencies, is working to consolidate an official exchange market."
The goal, he said, is to achieve an orderly and transparent market, whose rate will gradually and objectively reflect the current state of the economy.
On Wednesday, November 12, Cuba denounced that the U.S. government is organizing, financing, and executing a comprehensive program of economic warfare with the aim of destabilizing the constitutional order in the Caribbean nation.
According to the complaint, disclosed on the program Razones de Cuba, one of the mainstays of this hostility is the currency trafficking and tax evasion scheme on the island, involving operators of Cuban origin based in the United States and other countries.
The accusation directly pointed to El Toque, a digital media outlet that is supposedly independent but is manipulated by U.S. federal agencies.
