Havana, August 26, 2024. MINREX Statement.
Articles in The Miami Herald and others from the McClatchy press organization, to which the newspaper belongs, began a new slanderous campaign against Cuba at the end of last July, citing anonymous intelligence sources to support the accusation, a common practice that this journalistic organization and its editors are accustomed to when lies are the basis of the report.
The accusation is that Cuba is carrying out efforts to influence local electoral campaigns in the state of Florida in the United States.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejects the accusation in the most categorical terms. It also deplores the fact that the United States government, its State Department and its intelligence agencies have not disqualified the direct reference to alleged government agencies on whose authority these slanderous articles seem to rest.
The United States government cannot cite any evidence or indication, because it does not exist, that Cuba has interfered or has proposed to interfere in its electoral processes, or that it is favoring any politician from the state of Florida or another state in that country. Any reference to this is absolutely mendacious.
If it were not an absolutely unfounded accusation on such a serious issue, the statement would cause astonishment, since it could be interpreted that the United States government has made a 180-degree turn and for the first time in more than a century considers it inappropriate to interfere in the electoral processes of other countries. It is not clear in any of the articles, however, whether this government intends to abandon a practice as illegitimate as it is unacceptable that has accompanied US foreign policy for so long.
Havana, August 26, 2024.
(Cubaminrex).