Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel criticized on Monday a new report from the US Department of State that accuses Havana of waging "a sustained campaign of subversion" against the North American country for nearly seven decades and supporting "lethal extremist attacks."

"'The thief thinks everyone shares his condition.' Nothing is more accurate to characterize the State Department report against Cuba, promoted by one of the most corrupt officials of the current administration, with proven links to Florida drug traffickers and terrorists," the Cuban president posted on Telegram, referring to the head of the agency, Marco Rubio.

In that context, he stressed that if any state has spied on and attacked another to obscene degrees, it has been the United States against Cuba, specifically pointing to "the millions of dollars allocated annually to regime-change programs" in the Caribbean nation.

"History records criminal episodes, including plagues and diseases introduced into Cuba, hemorrhagic dengue that claimed the lives of 101 children, the downing of a plane with 73 people on board, hotel bombings, assassination attempts, and psychological warfare," he recalled.

Díaz-Canel also highlighted the US embargo against the island and "the genocidal dimension it takes on with the current reinforcement and energy blockade," emphasizing that there is no greater act of subversion against a nation, officially designed and outlined by the US to "exhaust the people and undermine their support for the Revolution."

"Cuba has never acted to harm the American people, nor has it sought to affect the national security of the United States. The transnational neo-McCarthyism being reinstated in the US from a clearly fascist current resorts to lies to generate pretexts upon which to sustain aggression against Cuba and curtail civil liberties in the US," he concluded.

On January 29, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring a "national emergency" over the alleged "unusual and extraordinary threat" that Washington claims Cuba poses to the security of the North American nation and the region.

Additionally, he announced tariffs on countries that sell oil to the Caribbean island, alongside threats of retaliation against those who act contrary to the White House executive order.

On May 20, the US Department of Justice charged former Cuban President Raúl Castro and five other individuals for allegedly causing the deaths of four people, including three US citizens, in connection with the 1996 downing of two aircraft that violated Cuban airspace.

The following month, sanctions were imposed on Cuba's current leader and his wife, Lis Cuesta Peraza.