• The disorders and incidents that occurred in some locations in Cuba on July 11, 2021, are the result of a plan designed by the US government to, opportunistically, exert the greatest possible pressure against Cuba, at a time when it faces a complex situation, derived from 16 months of confrontation with the pandemic and the current outbreak, in addition to the severe resurgence of the blockade and the brutal restrictions it imposes on the Cuban people. This has seriously affected the normal functioning of the Cuban economy, severely reducing income from exports of goods and services, access to fuel and medicines and medical supplies. To this are added other measures such as the failure to grant the number of visas to emigrate and travel temporarily to the United States and the suspension of consular services in Cuba, which considerably limits the travel of Cubans.
• These measures are intended to present a country in collapse and in chaos to provoke a social explosion and justify external intervention. The participation of the US is proven. The financing granted to individuals in Cuba and abroad to create small groups in our country that promote internal disorder, provoke and carry out acts against institutions, and commit terrorist actions is public and the encouragement to instigate acts of confrontation is also public and notorious. to Cuban institutions and laws, through media campaigns with lies and misrepresentations of the Cuban reality.
• We denounce in the strongest terms violent acts promoted and carried out by criminal elements, including attacks on law enforcement agencies. The plan that sparked the July 11 incidents has failed. The normal functioning of the institutions is maintained under the conditions imposed by the health emergency. The Cuban state and government and its institutions have full control of the situation.
• The government has taken and will take the necessary measures to guarantee citizen peace and tranquility. At no time, as some have maliciously said, have the Cuban authorities called for confrontation and violence between compatriots. We have call to our people, who, as they have always been, are the protagonists of defending the Homeland against mercenary aggressions, terrorist attacks, economic sabotage plans, economic coercion measures and other destabilization plans. The instigation to divide the Cubans comes from abroad.
• We request the support of the Greek government to prevent these destabilization plans, organized and incited from abroad, from being sustained. Feeding them would be a great responsibility.
• At the same time, we appreciate Greece's firm position in favor of lifting the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba, which is the main obstacle to the development and well-being of the Cuban people and a flagrant violation of their human rights.
• We denounce the disinformation and discredit campaign articulated from Washington, in the face of these maneuvers and the attempts to project an image of instability, breaking the citizen's tranquility and our state of law and social justice, the Cuban people, who love peace and has a deep Humanist vocation, would not renounce one iota to the construction of an inclusive, democratic, prosperous and sustainable society with everyone and for the good of all.
July 12, 2021.
