"In more than six decades of socialist revolution, just 90 miles from the U.S., not a single offensive action against the national security of that country has ever originated from this territory," stated Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, via social media.
"In any case, and this has been proven, documented, and even acknowledged by international organizations and U.S. agencies from previous administrations," he asserted, "Cuba has contributed to the U.S. in preserving its security in the fight against transnational crimes of various kinds."
In his statement, the president further declared that, contrary to any perceived threat to the United States, "Cuba has been the target of countless offensive actions orchestrated from that territory throughout these years of the Revolution, actions that have left thousands of Cubans wounded or dead."
In that regard, he specified that Cuba "has had to work all this time to confront with firmness and composure the threats coming from the U.S., and we will continue to do so to the very end," he emphasized.
Díaz-Canel stressed that "to label Cuba as a threat is, first and foremost, cynical. History proves it, and the facts right now show it: every day a new threat emerges from the U.S. against Cuba."
"To point to Cuba as a threat," he continued, "while additional coercive measures are decreed and its government is accused of being incapable of minimally sustaining its economy, is so incoherent and fanciful that even those who promote the thesis are unable to support it with solid arguments."
He also asserted that this "is part of a narrative designed to continue suffocating the Cuban people, and could escalate into a conflict with unimaginable consequences for our people and region," he insisted.
"Cuba neither threatens nor challenges, but neither is it afraid," he concluded.
