Bruno Rodríguez, member of the Political Bureau and Minister of Foreign Relations reiterated that this Sunday in Cuba there was no social outbreak; there were riots, disorder. Even the international press acknowledges that there were acts of violence in the riots, but not the social outbreak for which the US Government has been working, in a hidden way or more publicly in recent times.
Author: Yudy Castro Morales | yudy@granma.cu
July 13, 2021 02:07:31
In Cuba there was no social outbreak this Sunday; There were riots, disorder, caused by a communication operation that has been preparing for a long time, to which multimillion-dollar resources, laboratories, technological platforms with funds from the United States Government are allocated, denounced the member of the Political Bureau and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.
He highlighted the great international solidarity that Cuba awakens. For this reason, for months and, above all, in recent weeks, they have been receiving numerous offers of solidarity, practical support, donations, often modest, but of enormous symbolic and moral value, which encourage the effort of our town.
He mentioned the support of governments, international organizations, groups of people, solidarity associations, organizations of Cubans living abroad, and others.
He commented that a statement was issued by the US President, Joe Biden, in relation to the events that occurred this Sunday in Cuba, and, in general, the world has reacted with respect, based on the faultless conduct of our country, always attached to the truth, always transparent, always with the people and for the people.
But with cynicism, hypocrisy and manipulation, added Rodríguez Parrilla, politicians in the United States refer to these events. In his communiqué, Biden asks the "Havana regime" to listen to the Cuban people, "to alleviate their needs."
In that sense, he agreed, it would be good for the US president to listen to the Cuban people who for years have demonstrated against the blockade, and if there is something they want to do, it is to also listen to US citizens and lift this policy against Cuba and the 243 measures. that he inherited from President Trump.
Even, suggested the Chancellor, he could eliminate what was imposed during the pandemic, because the United States Government has used the virus as an ally to intensify the blockade, in a brutal and cruel way.
He could also, he continued, stop using the means of repression with which the police in the United States repress Afro-descendants, minorities, journalists ... and could stop exporting those tremendous means of repression to other countries in the world.
On June 15, he recalled, a first call for the campaign using the SOS Cuba label was launched, aimed at damaging the vote of the United Nations General Assembly against the blockade of Cuba, which expresses the position of the international community. But that campaign, he stressed, failed in the face of the voting results, where the United States was totally isolated, and they have introduced changes in that action.
This Sunday in Cuba, the Minister of Foreign Relations reiterated, there was no social outbreak; there were riots, disorder. Even the international press acknowledges that there were acts of violence in the riots, but not the social outbreak for which the US government has been working, secretly or more publicly in recent times.
Bruno Rodríguez meant that, in recent years, the people has suffered an intensified blockade, aimed at damaging the country's income with surgical precision, which translates into deficiencies and deprivations that affect Cuban families.
According to the Chancellor, since June 23, the international community was alerted that, in the US Government, in the anti-Cuban mafia, in extreme right-wing sectors, in Florida, they calculate, although they are wrong, that if they cause hardship and promote Artificial leaders and try to create a situation in the networks that does not exist in reality, they can achieve their objectives. Elements typical of unconventional warfare have been used these days.
However, said Bruno Rodríguez, the forceful response of the people made the communication operation and the campaign fail, although today it is resumed with other axes, and the attempt to generate a situation of ungovernability and social disorder.
Here, he pointed out, there has been a brutal attack against those who defend the truth and measures aimed at preventing the revision of the policy that the Democrats have raised, on issues that have to do with the population, such as travel, remittances, services consular ...
In addition, he explained, the issue related to those who rave about generating an irregular migratory flow to the United States is reopened, which is a dangerous bet that costs lives.
In the midst of all this scenario, as already stated, on June 15 the SOS Cuba label is launched, for which reason, here, the Foreign Minister asserted: “I accuse and call on the United States Government to recognize or deny that the company, based in Miami, which generated this label and this campaign, it received a certificate from the Republican government of Florida to act with state funds.
«I request that they confirm or deny that the main political operators of this company, connected with a publication financed by the United States Government, and that it is part of the group of media, especially based in Miami, that act systematically against Cuba that generated this campaign, have received funding from the State Department and the USAID, as part of the information war against our country.
"I also call on them to deny that the political operators who launched this label have been organizing demonstrations with signs of violence against the Cuban embassy in Washington, which not long ago was shot, without the US government having said a word."
Bruno Rodríguez also denounced that, from a media laboratory, based in Florida, the Humanitarian Intervention in Cuba campaign was launched on Twitter on July 5.
A humanitarian intervention, he clarified, was what happened in Yugoslavia in 1999. The NATO bombings were a humanitarian intervention not authorized by the United Nations Security Council. Therefore, those who instigate this are calling for a US military intervention in Cuba, violating our laws and international law.
I call on Twitter and the US government, said the Chancellor, "to recognize or deny that political operators actively used labels, groups of robots, trolls, who are users coordinated with automated means to flood the networks, in this campaign against Cuba ».
Despite the complaints, Twitter did not apply its own rules to try to prevent these actions from being carried out, including calls for assassination and violence, he stressed.
In addition, the Cuban Minister of Foreign Relations called on Twitter “to say whether or not it is true that the geolocation systems of the accounts were altered, to deceive people and make it appear that more than half were in Cuba, when that it is totally false ».
In the next few hours, he assured, "we will present copious information about these accusations to the US Government and to the Twitter company, on which we have all the evidence."