Havana, December 13th, 2023.- On 7 December, the Official Gazette of the Republic of Cuba published Resolution 19/2023 of the Ministry of the Interior, referring to the National List of persons and entities that have been subjected to criminal investigations and are wanted by the Cuban authorities, due to their involvement in the promotion, planning, organisation, financing, support or commission of acts carried out in the national territory or in other countries, including perpetrators of terrorist acts against Cuba from 1999 to the present.
The legal cases include attacks against hotels and other tourist centres in Havana, infiltration along the coasts to carry out violent actions, attacks against the President of the Republic and other public officials, as well as the promotion of military manoeuvres against the largest of the Antilles. The list also includes those responsible for inciting, organising and financing actions that affect social order in Cuba, through violent acts against public officials and the normal functioning of entities. Some of the terrorists mentioned in the publication are Santiago Álvarez Fernández Magriñá, Ramón Saúl Sánchez Rizo, Ana Olema Hernández, William Cabrera González, Michel Naranjo Riverón and Eduardo Arias León, as well as Yamila Betancourt García, Alexander Otaola Casal, Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat, Eliecer Ávila, Liudmila Santiesteban Cruz, Manuel Milanés Pizonero, Alain Lambert Sánchez (Cuban Paparazzi) and Jorge Ramón Batista Calero (Ultrack).
It highlights their participation in sabotage and other punishable actions, through the recruitment of people in the digital space, as well as the appearance in the document of Alexander Alazo Baró, subject of Investigation File 27/2020, initiated for the attack with a firearm on the Cuban embassy in the United States. The legal basis for the measure is found in Resolution 1373 of the United Nations Security Council on preventing and combating terrorism and its financing; the Cuban Penal Code; as well as Decree-Law 317 of the Council of State and Resolution 16 of the Minister of the Interior for detecting and combating money laundering, the financing of terrorism, the proliferation of arms and the movement of illicit capital.
(Cubaminrex - Official Gazette)