Press release

Press Release

11 November de 2021

“Wake up from that dream”

Summary of the presentation made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, to the Diplomatic Corps accredited in Havana, on Wednesday, November 10.

• For November 15th, the powerful propaganda machinery has been unleashed aiming at unfolding a scenario in the virtual space, regardless of what it may really occur on that date.
• The central axis, the script followed by the US government, is to try to present Cuba as a failed state, a desperate and foolish attempt.
• It's a destabilizing operation designed in Washington, with financial and material resources this government facilitates, with operators residing in US territory and agents to their service in Cuba, and with communicative practices and modalities that, in recent years, has characterized the toxic US political and electoral scenery.
• Since the announcement of the march, last September 22nd, up to date, 29 statements by US official speakers and Congress members Marco Rubio, Mario Díaz-Balart and María Elvira Salazar, have been issued. 
• The Cuban government cannot, while respecting its basic obligations, allow the United States to organize and promote a provocation like this. We have said so in a clear and direct manner to the US government, both through official and public channels.
• A few weeks ago, it was revealed the subsidies the federal agency USAID had granted to 12 organizations based in Florida, Washington and Madrid that deal with the anti-Cuban industry. This allocation of 6,669,000 million dollars, that should only be a small portion of the funds allocated by the federal government, was granted as recently as September, 2021.
• There’s no law, at international level, or within Cuban national legislation, that avails US practice to finance actions and individuals to attempt against the constitutional order and the right of Cubans to peace and tranquility.
• It’s interesting that in the face of the expected failure to mobilize the Cuban people, there is now an attempt to mobilize actions in other parts of the world. There are threats against Cuban embassies and consulates.
• We remember that one individual, on 30 April 2020, attacked with an assault firearm the Cuban embassy in Washington, in a central avenue in that city. So far, the U.S. government has not issued a statement or considered the event as a terrorist act.
• Moreover, on 26 July 2021, our Embassy in Paris, France, was attacked with Molotov cocktails.
• On the other hand, more than 60 sanctions has been imposed during the pandemic, making the US blockade against Cuba more extraterritorial and genocidal.
• Cuba has the right to protect itself from the US aggression and the it has the duty to safeguard the peace, stability and tranquility the US intends to alter.
• I have the duty to inform that private groups in Facebook not only carry out illegal activities in violation of Cuban laws, they even violate that platform´s own policies. They simulate the massive presence of individuals in Cuba who are known to reside, fundamentally, outside our country. As it has occurred in other parts of the world, Facebook can be sued because of these practices against Cuba.
• The majority of the international community supports Cuba's right to solve its problems in a peaceful manner; to overcome the economic challenges that hinder the daily life of the Cuban family, without foreign interference or aggression; to promote the economic transformations that we have proposed, without artificial obstacles; to enjoy the moment in which the country is opening up, after overcoming the worst stage of the pandemic.
• The US policy against Cuba is doomed to failure. Wake up from that dream. It won´t come true. It has not worked; it does not work and will never work.

Permanent Mission of Cuba in Geneva