[News] Cuba condemns the despicable accusation against the Leader of the Revolution

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Cuba condemns the despicable accusation against the Leader of the Revolution
Ed Newman
May 20, 2026
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The Revolutionary Government condemns in the strongest terms the despicable
accusation by the United States Department of Justice, announced on May 20
and foreshadowed for several weeks, against Army General Raúl Castro Ruz,
leader of the Cuban Revolution.

The United States government lacks the legitimacy and jurisdiction to carry
out this action.  This is a despicable and infamous act of political
provocation, based on the dishonest manipulation of the incident that led
to the downing, in February 1996, of two aircraft operated by the
Miami-based terrorist organization Brothers to the Rescue over Cuban
airspace.  Brothers to the Rescue’s repeated violations of Cuban airspace
for hostile purposes were common knowledge.

The U.S. government also distorts other historical truths about the event
it uses as a pretext. Among other details, it omits the numerous formal
complaints filed by Cuba during that period with the State Department, the
U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the International Civil
Aviation Organization (ICAO) regarding more than 25 serious and deliberate
violations of Cuban airspace committed by the aforementioned organization
between 1994 and 1996, in blatant transgression of international law and
U.S. law itself.

It also ignores the public and official warnings issued by Cuban
authorities regarding the inadmissibility of such violations of its
airspace and the alerts sent directly to the President of the United States
concerning the seriousness and potential consequences of such
transgressions.

Cuba’s response to the violation of its airspace constituted an act of
legitimate self-defense, protected by the Charter of the United Nations,
the 1944 Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation, and the
principles of air sovereignty and proportionality.

The United States, which has been a victim of the use of civil aviation for
terrorist purposes, does not and would not permit the hostile and
provocative violation of its territory by foreign aircraft and would act,
as it has demonstrated, with the use of force.

The inaction of the U.S. government in the face of the alerts issued by
Cuba at the time revealed its complicity in the planning and execution,
from its territory, of violent, illegal, and terrorist acts against the
Cuban government and people—a recurring and systematic practice from the
triumph of the Revolution to the present day.

It is utterly cynical that this accusation is being made by the same
government that has murdered nearly 200 people and destroyed 57 vessels in
international waters of the Caribbean and the Pacific, far from U.S.
territory, using disproportionate military force, for alleged links to drug
trafficking operations that have never been proven.  This government
classifies these acts as extrajudicial killings, in accordance with
international law, and as murders, according to U.S. law itself.

This spurious accusation against the Leader of the Cuban Revolution adds to
the desperate attempts by anti-Cuban elements to construct a fraudulent
narrative in an effort to justify the collective and merciless punishment
of the noble Cuban people through the strengthening of unilateral coercive
measures, including the unjust and genocidal energy blockade and threats of
armed aggression.

Cuba reaffirms its commitment to peace and its firm determination to
exercise the inalienable right to self-defense, recognized by the Charter
of the United Nations.

The Cuban people reaffirm their unwavering commitment to defend the
Homeland and its Socialist Revolution and, with the utmost strength and
resolve, their unrestricted and unwavering support for Army General Raúl
Castro Ruz, Leader of the Cuban Revolution.

Patria o Muerte!   Homeland or Death!

Venceremos!   We will win!

Havana, May 20, 2026.

“Year of the Centennial of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.”
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