An anti-imperialist trial accused on Tuesday the U.S. government and intelligence services for the sabotage of the steamship La Coubre, in the Port of Havana, 65 years ago.
At the scene of the brutal terrorist act, in the presence of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, documentary, expert and fiscal evidence was presented, which clarified the causes, circumstances and those responsible for the tragedy, in which 101 people died, 33 disappeared and more than 400 were injured.
Testimonies such as that of Rosario Velasco Gómez -who lost her husband, a worker at the Port- or that of Osvaldo Canceco Fernández, whose father died there, multiplied in the accounts of several relatives of direct victims of the crime.
The trial revealed a study by the Center for Historical Research of the State Security, in which, after relating a series of irregularities in the steamship's itinerary to Havana, they ruled out the possibility of an accident, since the armament transported -especially the grenades- can only detonate with external actions, never on its own.
The symbolic act of justice was attended by members of the Political Bureau Manuel Marrero Cruz, Prime Minister, and Roberto Morales Ojeda, Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee; as well as leaders of the Party, of the Union of Young Communists, of agencies of the Central State Administration, and other authorities.
