[News] Terrorists in Cuba: Who are they and Who Sponsors Them?

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Terrorists in Cuba: Who are they and Who Sponsors Them?
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By Beto Rodriguez on January 4, 2024

3478. the number of Cubans killed by US sponsored terrorism since the
revolution.

On the afternoon of November 24, 2023, the U.S. Embassy in Cuba issued an
alert to its citizens wishing to enter the island for “potential terrorist
acts, demonstrations and acts of violence against the United States, its
citizens and its interests.” Therefore, it suggested to avoid “places
frequented by tourists and sites commonly used for demonstrations”.
(Suspicious…)

A day earlier, Palestinian kufiyas and flags waved along Havana’s Malecon
in a march called and led by Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel in favor of
Palestine and against the genocidal aggression of the Israeli regime. The
demonstration started from the Avenue of the Presidents and went along the
Antillean cape to the park known as La Piragua, very, very close to the
headquarters of the U.S. Embassy. (Coincidence?…).

Did this demonstration cause panic in Washington? Should its citizens be
afraid to travel to Cuba because of a march in solidarity with Palestine?
After all, the event had already happened and from the windows of the
diplomatic building on Desamparados Street everything could be observed and
its occupants could enjoy their cokes quite relaxed without fear of “acts
of violence” against them.

Who are the terrorists?

A fortnight later, the Official Gazette of the Republic of Cuba shook the
sewers of Miami. On December 7, it published in its pages Resolution
19/2023 approved by the Cuban Ministry of the Interior with the National
List of persons and entities linked to terrorism against Cuba. In short,
names and terrorist organizations that since 1999 have planned, executed
and conspired acts of extreme violence in Cuban territory, government and
tourist facilities, sabotage, illegal incursions, human trafficking, war
preparations and, yes, plans to assassinate the leaders of the Revolution.

Some of the terrorists cited in the publication are: Santiago Álvarez
Fernández Magriñá, Ramón Saúl Sánchez Rizo, Ana Olema Hernández, William
Cabrera González, Michel Naranjo Riverón and Eduardo Arias León.

Also on the list are: Yamila Betancourt García; youtuber Alejandro Otaola
Casal (who could not hide how affected he was by being on the list and
responded on his Youtube channel); the aforementioned terrorist, Orlando
Gutiérrez Boronat and others such as Eliecer Ávila, Liudmila Santiesteban
Cruz, Manuel Milanés Pizonero, Alain Lambert Sánchez (self-styled Cuban
Paparazzi) and Jorge Ramón Batista Calero (a.k.a. Ultrack).

According to Cuban government decree, all these people (have) participated
in documented acts of violence, using social networks to recruit some
harmless people in exchange for a few dollars for their grotesque purposes,
inside and outside Cuba.

Unconscious… or maybe not, because on the list appears the name of
Alexander Alazo Baró, who, according to file 27/2020, is under
investigation for having attacked with 32 semi-automatic rifle shots the
Cuban Embassy in the United States in the early morning of April 30, 2020.

According to investigations, Alexander Allazo is linked to the
Florida-based evangelical church, Doral Jesus Worship Center , which is
attended by other anti-Cuban extremists such as Pastor Frank Lopez , close
to Senator Marco Rubio , one of the leading figures in the anti-Cuban
struggle.

Three years later, history repeated itself. Two Molotov cocktails crashed
into the Cuban diplomatic headquarters in Washington. “Anti-Cuban groups
resort to terrorism when they feel impunity, something Cuba has repeatedly
warned U.S. authorities about,” declared Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno
Rodriguez Parrilla on September 24, the day of the new terrorist attack.

And the criminals? Nobody knows. Maybe the U.S. authorities do, but who
knows… Right?

A jet ski and a terrorist enter through Matanzas

On December 9, Cuban media reported that a man, residentof Miami, was
arrested in the province of Cienfuegos. The subject had entered by sea,
aboard a jet ski adapted to withstand the 90-mile trip from Florida to
Cuba. One detail: the man was carrying a gun and several full cartridges of
ammunition. He intended to recruit people to burn sugar cane plantations,
provoke riots, harass tourist centers, distribute propaganda against the
Government of the island… in short, terrorist stuff. But the citizen’s
denunciation plus the immediate action of the Ministry of the Interior
managed to stop him in time.

He was not just any castaway or lost tourist. Once arrested, the subject
turned out to be on the National List of Terrorists that, a few days
earlier, had been published by the Cuban Government. His intentions were
clear: to exercise all the violence he could against the country, by order
of terrorist groups based in Miami. The Miami of Marco Rubio and Orlando
Boronat. Of Mario Diaz-Balart and the youtuber Otaola. The same ones who
have publicly urged Washington to drop bombs on Havana. They have received
armed and physical paramilitary training and money for instructions to
carry out violent actions inside Cuba.

Was this another “mentally handicapped” as Miami propagandists are trying
to pass off the terrorist who shot up the Cuban embassy in 2020? Perhaps it
was the action of a fanatic with a lot of initiative, a gun and a jet ski?
Or none of the above. So, no one should rule out the possibility that the
U.S. government knew this would happen and that is why it issued its alert
about possible acts of terrorism in Cuba a few days earlier. In other
words, Washington already knew in advance that anti-Cuban groups were
planning to infiltrate the island to commit acts of terrorism.

The list of such actions is long. Since the triumph of Fidel Castro’s
Revolution in Cuba in 1959 (and yes, it has been 65 years and counting…),
U.S. intelligence has tried everything to put an end to Cuban socialism. It
invaded militarily in 1961; attempted to assassinate Fidel on more than six
hundred occasions; blew up a Cubana de Aviación plane in 1973; bomb
explosions in hotels and resorts; assassinated a diplomat in New York in
1980; to this day kidnaps artists and sportsmen; finances human
trafficking, not to mention that year after year it invests millions of
dollars in permanent political, economic and media siege campaigns trying
to subvert public opinion inside and outside Cuba against its government.

Uncle Sam’s responsibility

The facts indicate that they intend to reopen a new phase of violence
against the island, through armed infiltration. That is called terrorism,
anywhere in the world. And for less, the White House has invaded countries
feigning “threats to their security”.

However, it seems that for the U.S. government terrorism only exists when
it affects its economic interests. For them, there is everything from
TERRORISM to “terrorism, whatever”. And what is against Cuba (as in
general, against all countries, peoples and people hated by Uncle Sam) is
tolerated and even financed.

And if not, the United States has the responsibility to comply with
international standards and deport to Cuba the 61 Florida-based terrorists
awaiting trial on the island for their acts. However, this is the hour in
which Washington refuses to collaborate, collaborating with the suspicion
(which is more of a certainty) that it not only consents to, but is behind
the violence against Havana by these groups.

What happens is that the world continues to demand this attitude from the
United States ends. Thus, last November 2, as every year, all the countries
of the world (except the US, obviously, and Israel, which is a fictitious
country anyway) demanded Washington lift the criminal economic and
commercial blockade against the island, by means of a vote in the UN
General Assembly. And they will continue to demand it together with the
peoples of the world until the White House stops obstinately using
terrorism as a state policy.

Source: Medium
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