Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel warned today that a new and more dangerous version of McCarthyism is back in the United States, in reference to the ministerial meeting convened by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. With a threatening transnational projection, the president stated on his social media accounts that far-right alliances are being promoted that recall Hitlerite fascism or the sinister Operation Condor, aimed at attacking a supposed global "radical left."

"Are pretexts being sought as justification for new abuses and greater aggressions?" he questioned. The also first secretary of Cuba's Communist Party pointed out in his message that "dangerously radical are the imperial right and its acolytes," responsible, among other crimes, for the genocide in Gaza, extrajudicial killings; the hunting, torture, and murder of migrants; the bombing of a girls' school in Iran; and the genocidal blockade against the Cuban people. "The list is endless," he emphasized.

Díaz-Canel stated that the true danger to humanity is the philosophy of dispossession that dictates the war actions of the transnational far right.

For his part, the Caribbean nation's foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez, declared that the U.S. Secretary of State—whose political career developed among notorious and recognized terrorists—has the audacity to lie without scruples with unfounded accusations regarding an alleged Cuban financing and sponsorship of terrorism. "One need not look far to discover this politician's collusion with criminal organizations that have brought terror and death to the Cuban people. Yet he is incapable of presenting any evidence of the fallacies he shamelessly pronounces before government representatives in a McCarthyist conference, convened for electoral purposes," he added in his message on X.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a speech Thursday at the opening of the Ministerial Meeting on the "Resurgence of Political Terrorism," in which he constructed an alleged global terrorist threat through decontextualized events, unverifiable figures, unproven accusations, and rhetoric that portrays the left as a violent enemy. The meeting was attended by delegations from 66 countries across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, represented by foreign and interior ministers, security officials, diplomats, and counterterrorism specialists.

Rubio outlined numerous falsehoods about progressive movements worldwide. In the case of Cuba, he claimed that the Cuban ideological and intelligence network contributed to building the far left in the United States and remains inseparably linked to leftist movements within and outside the West. However, Reuters confirmed that the Secretary of State provided no public evidence of such a contemporary network. The Cuban government, for its part, has officially denied harboring, supporting, or financing terrorist or extremist organizations, as reported by Cubadebate in its Media Observatory section.