Sowing pain and death on Cuban soil, taking the lives of innocent people to terrorize the population has been, together with the blockade, the weapon most used by Washington to try to defeat the Cuban Revolution.
If the economic and financial war does not undermine the pillars of the Caribbean nation, violence must bring down those foundations. This criminal aberration has been the basis of the actions taken against the largest of the Antilles since January 1959 by successive administrations that have occupied the White House Oval Office.
Those who accuse Cuba of sponsoring terrorism have never hesitated to use it without any consideration.
The recent denunciation made by the Cuban press once again calls into question the ability of the U.S. to fabricate lists and accuse others of what they do with impunity.
The action of Cuban Ardenys Garcia Alvarez, a U.S. resident and member of a counterrevolutionary group openly training in Florida, is extremely serious.
As a sort of return to the past, they reedited a clandestine infiltration through our coasts, to disembark weapons and ammunition, with the purpose of committing terrorist acts.
The plan was "simple", enter, recruit mercenaries, spy, attack military units to obtain weapons and provoke an armed uprising.
We Cubans are well aware of the consequences of these actions. According to data from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, terrorist acts committed by the U.S. government have caused 3,478 deaths and 2,099 disabled persons on the island.
Our historical archives keep the memory of more than 600 attempted attacks against Fidel Castro and other leaders of the Revolution.
How can we forget the assassinations of literacy teachers Conrado Benítez and Manuel Ascunce and other Cuban children, youths and peasants committed by armed gangs organized by the CIA in the 1960s.
The victims of the sabotage against the Cubana de Aviación aircraft in Barbados on October 6, 1976; of the introduction of the dengue epidemic that killed 101 children in 1981; and of the bombs placed in Havana hotels in the 1990s will always be alive in our memory.
Terrorism against Cuba is not a thing of the past. On the contrary, hate speech has been on the rise in recent years. Let us recall the recent attacks against the Cuban Embassy in Washington.
On December 7, 2023, Resolution 19/2023 of the Ministry of the Interior was published in the Official Gazette, with the National List of persons and entities linked to terrorism against the largest of the Antilles.
It contains the names of individuals and terrorist organizations that, since 1999, have planned, executed and conspired acts of extreme violence in Cuban territory.
Some of these persons appearing in the Resolution are implicated in the denunciation made by the Cuban press. In compliance with international law, will the guilty parties be brought to justice in the U.S.?
