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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">The Art of Manufacturing a Threat: How Washington Builds the Pretext for Its War against Cuba</h1>
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<p>By Ángel González on August 5, 2026</p>
<div id="gmail-attachment_36050" class="gmail-wp-caption"><p><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-36050" src="https://i0.wp.com/resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/8-7-rubio.jpg?resize=300%2C181&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="181" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"></p><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-36050" class="gmail-wp-caption-text">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.</p></div>
<p>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 \u201cCuban threat\u201d into public opinion to pave
the way for an intervention with the least possible political cost.<span id="gmail-more-36049"></span></p>
<p>The Architects of the Discourse</p>
<p>Mauricio Claver-Carone, appointed by Trump as special envoy for Latin
America, has been identified by the Cuban government as the \u201carchitect
and executioner\u201d 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\u2019s 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.</p>
<p>Claver-Carone himself has acknowledged that his objective is to
implement \u201cmore modern and effective tools\u201d 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 \u201che who laughs last laughs best\u201d and that he was preparing
even worse measures for Cuba.</p>
<p>Marco Rubio\u2019s 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. <a href="https://t.co/1j3TjtWZZl">https://t.co/1j3TjtWZZl</a></p>
<p>On July 20, 2026, the State Department published a report of
approximately one hundred pages entitled \u201cCuba: The Capital of 21st
Century Communism.\u201d The document accuses Cuba of having led a campaign
of \u201cespionage and subversion\u201d within U.S. territory for almost seven
decades.</p>
<p>However, the report exhibits characteristics that reveal its fabricated nature:</p>
<ol><li>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 \u201cguilt by
association.\u201d</li><li>Use of Artificial Intelligence: Several media outlets have pointed
out that the document \u201cappears to have been produced with right-leaning
Artificial Intelligence,\u201d suggesting a technological fabrication of the
narrative.</li><li>Unprovable thesis: The report begins with a preconceived
conclusion\u2014that Cuba has waged a comprehensive war against the United
States\u2014and 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.</li><li>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.</li></ol>
<p>The insurmountable contradiction: The narrative of a \u201cCuba threat\u201d 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.</p>
<p>Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has been emphatic: \u201cIf any country
has spied on and attacked another at obscene levels, it has been the
United States against Cuba.\u201d He added: \u201cCuba has never acted to harm the
American people nor has it ever intended to affect U.S. national
security.\u201d</p>
<p>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, \u201cCuba is not and cannot be a threat to the
national security of the United States.\u201d</p>
<p>The Mirror of Reality: Cuban Evidence</p>
<p>While Washington fabricates baseless accusations, Cuba has documented
real US aggression against its sovereignty for decades. President
Díaz-Canel recalled \u201cthe millions of dollars allocated annually to
regime change programs in Cuba\u201d and pointed to \u201ccriminal 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.\u201d</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The case of the Cuban Five\u2014convicted in the U.S. of espionage when in
reality they were tracking terrorist groups in South Florida to prevent
attacks against Cuba\u2014is emblematic of how Washington distorts reality.</p>
<p>A transnational neo-McCarthyism</p>
<p>President Díaz-Canel has described this offensive as part of a
\u201ctransnational neo-McCarthyism,\u201d a \u201cclearly fascist current that resorts
to lies to generate pretexts on which to justify aggression against
Cuba.\u201d</p>
<p>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 \u201cis part of a broader U.S. effort to establish a
global campaign against \u2018the left wing,\u2019 which some fear could be a
first step toward justifying the persecution and even detention of
progressive opponents of Donald Trump.\u201d</p>
<p>The war against Cuba is not military\u2014at least not yet\u2014but 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.</p>
<p>Source: <a href="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">Cuba Informacion</a>, translated by Ed Newman, Radio Havana Cuba</p>
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