[News] The Art of Manufacturing a Threat: How Washington Builds the Pretext for Its War against Cuba

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The Art of Manufacturing a Threat: How Washington Builds the Pretext for
Its War against Cuba
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By Ángel González on August 5, 2026

Marco Rubio, flanked by advisors, oversees from a US intelligence center
the digital fabrication of pretexts using AI to justify an aggressive
escalation against Cuba.

The United States government, under the Trump administration and with Marco
Rubio as Secretary of State, has deployed a sophisticated propaganda
operation to construct a pretext justifying an aggressive escalation
against Cuba. Behind this scheme are Mauricio Claver-Carone and Jeremy
Lewin, the principal architects of a strategy that seeks to introduce the
narrative of a “Cuban threat” into public opinion to pave the way for an
intervention with the least possible political cost.

The Architects of the Discourse

Mauricio Claver-Carone, appointed by Trump as special envoy for Latin
America, has been identified by the Cuban government as the “architect and
executioner” who, along with Marco Rubio, designed and implemented more
than 200 additional measures to the embargo between the summer of 2018 and
January 2021, with the aim of bringing about Cuba’s collapse. Born in Miami
and of Cuban descent, Claver-Carone built a close relationship with Trump
during his first term as director of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the
National Security Council. His record shows him as the executor, along with
Marco Rubio, of the tightening of the embargo against the island.

Claver-Carone himself has acknowledged that his objective is to implement
“more modern and effective tools” to pressure Cuba, focusing on key
economic sectors of the regime with the aim of weakening its control. It is
no coincidence that he promised, even before taking office, that “he who
laughs last laughs best” and that he was preparing even worse measures for
Cuba.

Marco Rubio’s deceptive communications operation to justify his personal
policy of maximum intensification of the blockade and economic warfare
against Cuba is proportional to the unprecedented cruelty and brute force
of the persecution aimed at suffocating the Cuban population for the
purpose of domination. https://t.co/1j3TjtWZZl

On July 20, 2026, the State Department published a report of approximately
one hundred pages entitled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism.”
The document accuses Cuba of having led a campaign of “espionage and
subversion” within U.S. territory for almost seven decades.

However, the report exhibits characteristics that reveal its fabricated
nature:

   1. Total absence of verifiable evidence: The text does not cite any open
   legal cases, does not identify Cuban agents by name, and does not present
   any intercepted communications or declassified intelligence documents that
   would allow for verification of its claims. What it offers is a collection
   of inferences and a rhetoric of “guilt by association.”
   2. Use of Artificial Intelligence: Several media outlets have pointed
   out that the document “appears to have been produced with right-leaning
   Artificial Intelligence,” suggesting a technological fabrication of the
   narrative.
   3. Unprovable thesis: The report begins with a preconceived
   conclusion—that Cuba has waged a comprehensive war against the United
   States—and then selects facts that attempt to fit that narrative. The logic
   is circular: it starts with an isolated case, adds contacts or affinities,
   integrates them into a single network, attributes it to the Cuban state,
   and presents the whole as a current threat.
   4. Omission of historical context: The report fails to mention the U.S.
   embargo against the island, the numerous assassination attempts against
   Cuban leaders, the Bay of Pigs invasion, or the current efforts to strangle
   the Cuban economy.

The insurmountable contradiction: The narrative of a “Cuba threat” to the
United States clashes with an undeniable reality: Washington has maintained
an economic embargo against the island for more than six decades. According
to cited data, the embargo costs Cuba more than $5 billion annually in
direct economic damages alone.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has been emphatic: “If any country has
spied on and attacked another at obscene levels, it has been the United
States against Cuba.” He added: “Cuba has never acted to harm the American
people nor has it ever intended to affect U.S. national security.”

The power imbalance is so blatant that the accusation seems grotesque: a
Third World country, blockaded and besieged for decades, can hardly pose a
real threat to the hegemonic superpower. As the Cuban government has
stated, “Cuba is not and cannot be a threat to the national security of the
United States.”

The Mirror of Reality: Cuban Evidence

While Washington fabricates baseless accusations, Cuba has documented real
US aggression against its sovereignty for decades. President Díaz-Canel
recalled “the millions of dollars allocated annually to regime change
programs in Cuba” and pointed to “criminal episodes, including plagues and
diseases introduced to Cuba, the dengue fever outbreak that claimed the
lives of 101 children; the downing of a plane with 73 people on board;
bombings of hotels; assassination attempts; and psychological warfare.”

CIA documents declassified by the US government itself reveal that the
agency was spying on Cuban companies as early as the 1960s. Cuba has also
denounced the use of State Department aircraft to spray substances
containing the harmful Thrips palmi pest on Cuban agricultural plantations.

The case of the Cuban Five—convicted in the U.S. of espionage when in
reality they were tracking terrorist groups in South Florida to prevent
attacks against Cuba—is emblematic of how Washington distorts reality.

A transnational neo-McCarthyism

President Díaz-Canel has described this offensive as part of a
“transnational neo-McCarthyism,” a “clearly fascist current that resorts to
lies to generate pretexts on which to justify aggression against Cuba.”

The ultimate goal of this fabrication is clear: to create in American and
world public opinion the perception of a threat that justifies actions that
would otherwise have a high political cost. As one analysis points out, the
report “is part of a broader U.S. effort to establish a global campaign
against ‘the left wing,’ which some fear could be a first step toward
justifying the persecution and even detention of progressive opponents of
Donald Trump.”

The war against Cuba is not military—at least not yet—but it is real. It is
an economic, media, and political war orchestrated from the offices of
Washington by figures like Claver-Carone and Rubio. The primary weapon in
this war is not missiles or bombings, but lies disguised as official
documents, fiction presented as intelligence, and pretexts fabricated with
artificial intelligence to deceive the world and justify the unjustifiable.

Source: Cuba Informacion
<https://www.cubainformacion.tv/contra-cuba/20260803/124322/124322-el-arte-de-fabricar-una-amenaza-como-washington-construye-el-pretexto-para-su-guerra-contra-cuba>,
translated by Ed Newman, Radio Havana Cuba
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