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<h1 class="reader-title">U.S. lies to justify further attacks on
Cuba</h1>
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<div class="reader-estimated-time">May 2, 2019<br>
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<p>“There are no Cuban troops in Venezuela. There are no
security forces from Cuba in Venezuela. Cuba does not
participate with military troops or personnel in
military operations in Venezuela. These falsehoods
constitute an affront to the people of Cuba, the
government of Cuba, the people of Venezuela, and the
international community, sovereign states and the U.S.
people who deserve to know the truth,” reiterated the
Cuban Foreign Ministry’s Deputy Director for the United
States, Johana Tablada, in statements offered to the
press this Wednesday, May 1.</p>
<p>Tablada stressed that in recent weeks the Cuban
government has denounced a series of accusations,
falsehoods and slander regarding the nature of the
cooperative relationship between Cuba and Venezuela,
headed by “a pathological liar, former ambassador John
Bolton, who has a long history of conflicts with the
truth,” and today is National Security Advisor to the
U.S. government.</p>
<p>She recalled that Bolton lied about the existence of
chemical weapons in Iraq, and of biological weapons in
Cuba in 2002, lies that cost him his appointment as U.S.
ambassador to the United Nations, following a Senate
Foreign Relations Committee hearing, which led to his
own party voting against him and recommending that he be
prevented from returning to public office at such a high
level.</p>
<p>The Cuban diplomat emphasized that the escalation in
accusations in recent days is intended to conceal the
failure of the sustained U.S. policy of aggression
against Venezuela, and the frustration after the second
coup attempt against the legitimate government of
Nicolás Maduro was also defeated. “The objective is to
shroud the real support that exists in Venezuela for the
government and the Bolivarian Revolution, and the lack
of support for the self-proclaimed or supposed leaders
chosen by the United States.”</p>
<p>Tablada explained that the intention is to find the
most convenient pretext to impose and justify new
measures of aggression against the Cuban people, on
claiming that the island has 20,000 soldiers posted in
Venezuela and is interfering in its internal affairs,
“something that even the U.S. government knows is
untrue.”</p>
<p>She noted that as part of this same policy of
hostility, the U.S. President threatened the island with
the proclamation of a “full and complete embargo,” if
its troops were not withdrawn from Venezuela. “We can’t
withdraw something that does not exist from Venezuela.
This is a disrespectful statement that conceals the
cruel nature of the scope of these measures against our
people.”</p>
<p>Johana Tablada highlighted that such recent
announcements appear to overlook the fact that for 60
years the people of Cuba have suffered the most
wide-ranging, complex and absurd system of unilateral
sanctions and coercive measures in history, and that
“Bolton is delirious when he says that the whole world
supports the sanctions.”</p>
<p>“This decision will be met by our country, by our
people, by our government, as always: we will denounce
it, but we will resist. The people of Cuba will resist
and triumph,” she concluded.</p>
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