Press release

PRESS RELEASE

Cuba denounces once more the continuous calls for destabilizing actions on social networks and media intoxication laboratories, financed and supported from U.S territory, including the incitement to carry out terrorist attacks and other violent actions.

These attempts at destabilization are of public domain and are duly informed to the national public opinion on a regular basis.

These actions include:

• The call for demonstrations between August 5 and 11, in parks, regional government headquarters and other public places.
• The call for subversive actions on August 13, 95th anniversary of the birthday of the Commander in Chief of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz.
• The user "Café con ideas", has incited, from U.S territory and on Telegram groups, a group of people to assault a polyethylene pipes manufacturer, used for hydraulic installations, and use them to block the roads that provide access to the José Martí International Airport in Havana. Said user states that the details of the organization of said actions take place in a clandestine manner, as part of a group of actions of "economic guerrilla warfare."
• Additionally, it was incited to carry out eventual roadblocks that give access to the airport. These actions seek to provoke the corresponding police response, in order to continue stepping up media campaigns on alleged acts of "repression of freedom of expression."
• The same user promotes additional actions from the United States, aimed at impacting negatively on tourism and remittances to Cuba.
• Vandalism and terrorist actions continue to be promoted on Telegram, including, but not limited to:

1. Posting on social networks the places of residence of law enforcement officers and state officials, threatening them and vandalizing their homes with paint or excrement,
2. Practicing sabotage on electricity grids to cause power cuts,
3. Burning government facilities, garbage bins on public roads, and sugar cane farms,
4. Attacking police patrol cars and attacking their agents by throwing stones,
5. Breaking bottles, glass and nails in heavy traffic streets and busy public places,
6. Extending wires on routes where police motor officers transit,
7. Creating public order disturbances to attempt to take weapons from the police officers.
8. Attacking surveillance cameras on public roads in order to disable them,
9. Breaking shop and businesses windows.

• The user " Marvin el Marxiano " has made calls, also from U.S. territory, to "take to the streets, regardless of who lives and who dies".

The Permanent Mission of Cuba recalls that the incitement of such actions takes place in a context of a delicate health and economic situation, caused by a rise in Covid-19 cases and by the tightening of the measures under the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba.

The Permanent Mission of Cuba wishes to emphasize that, in spite of the fact that such violent actions have not been carried out, the mere fact of inciting to commit them constitutes a serious crime under the Cuban legal penal system, and in that of many other countries.

These actions confirm that the events of July 11 and the U.S political campaign against Cuba, in complicity of the mass media, alleged non-governmental organizations and transnational Internet platforms, are not related to the defense of human rights, much less with the peaceful exercise of the rights endorsed in the Constitution of the Republic.

The Government of Cuba has the support of the overwhelming majority of the Cuban people and possesses all the legal and institutional tools, to face these destabilizing attempts and make sure that there is no impunity.

Permanent Mission of Cuba