Facing the Empire’s Aggressive Keenness: The Determination of a People

The empire does not stop in its efforts to bend the Cuban people to its will. Its "diplomatic" tools in this endeavor are the same as ever: threats, pressure, and hate-filled campaigns that disregard the truth—as if Cuba would remain silent, or as if the world were unaware of the true character of these slanderers!

This Monday unfolded along this same path of aggression. Florida’s Chief of Staff, James Uthmeier, issued an arrest warrant for the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz.

For these alleged charges, they recycled a fraudulent accusation—previously disseminated last May by the United States Department of Justice—concerning the downing of two light aircraft that violated Cuban airspace on February 24, 1996.

This reprehensible act was described by the First Secretary of the Party’s Central Committee and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, as "a pathetic Miami-style circus, with an electoral agenda."

In this regard, the President added—via the social media platform X—that this infamous charge "has no legal or practical basis whatsoever, nor will it ever have one. Raúl is Raúl, and every affront directed at him will be met with the determination of a people committed to defending the Revolution," he asserted.

He further noted that "this maneuver—dressed up in legal garb by anti-Cuban politicians against Raúl and against Cuba—deserves our firm condemnation." He pointed out that "it is part of an aggressive agenda, a response to the difficulties they face in trying to justify the blockade and the collective punishment inflicted upon our people."

In that same line of actions against national sovereignty; at the same time, White House diplomats at the UN were turning that multilateral space into an anti-Cuban spectacle.

The U.S. delegation to the United Nations—in a clear violation of international norms—convened a meeting in which they employed political coercion and manipulation as weapons, attempting to isolate the Caribbean nation internationally.

"Cuba is here, not in there. The representatives of the Cuban people are here, not with them," stated Ernesto Soberón, the island’s Permanent Representative to the UN, in response to this deceitful display—which comes just days before the 34th presentation of the Cuban report against the blockade to the General Assembly.

The meeting was attended by representatives from a small group of member states, as well as individuals convicted of crimes or linked to terrorist organizations responsible for death and suffering among the Cuban population. Among them was the terrorist Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat, who is included on the National List of Persons and Entities Designated as Terrorists.

Of the same type are the participants in an attempted terrorist infiltration that was neutralized by the Border Guard Troops on February 25, in the waters off Villa Clara. Regarding this incident, a report emerged yesterday providing new details from the investigation, which confirm that it was an act of direct aggression against the country. The report includes statements from the terrorists involved, as well as from other individuals implicated who have been detained by Cuban authorities.

Translated by Amilkal Labañino / CubaSí Translation Staff