Vientiane, May 2024 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has learned with deep concern of the decision of a judge of the Court for the District of Columbia of the United States, issued on May 1, 2024, which acquitted Alexander Alazo Baró of the four charges that were working against him, as a result of the terrorist attack perpetrated by him against the Cuban Embassy in the United States in the early hours of April 30, 2020, for which he alleged the perpetrator's insanity.
Alazo, a person of Cuban origin who has lived in the United States since 2010, fired 32 bullets from a magazine of an AK-47 semi-automatic rifle at the Cuban diplomatic headquarters in Washington, causing extensive material damage outside and inside the building and endangered the lives of several people who were inside the building.
Alazo himself confessed that he was going with the intention of beating whatever was in front of him, even human beings if they had been in his line of fire. It was a terrorist act in the capital city of the United States against a permanent diplomatic headquarters.
At the time of his arrest, Alazo's regular association with the religious center Doral Jesus Worship Center, in Miami Dade, was known, where people with recognized behavior in favor of aggression, hostility, violence and extremism against Cuba.
The terrorist was immediately detained at the scene and the United States government charged him with four crimes provided for in the Federal Code of that country. However, he has been unable to describe the action for what it is: a terrorist act.
The politicization by the United States of the attack perpetrated against the Cuban Embassy in Washington was evident from the first moments. This is demonstrated by the lengthy process to analyze proven facts.
Four years after the events and in a criminal process full of opacity, the judge accepted a joint report from the Prosecutor's Office and the defense of the terrorist Alexander Alazo Baró, which presents the perpetrator as someone who, at the time of the events, did not was in possession of his mental faculties and, therefore, declares him innocent.
The decision taken sends a dangerous message of impunity for those who propose to take violent actions against diplomatic headquarters in the city of Washington.
On September 24, 2023, at night, an individual threw two Molotov cocktails over the perimeter fence of the Cuban Embassy in Washington and against the front façade of that facility. It is a fact that occurred three years and five months after the attack perpetrated by Alazo. Even United States law enforcement authorities claim to not know the perpetrator or have details of what happened.
These terrorist acts are a direct result of the policy and aggressive discourse of the United States government against Cuba, of the permanent instigation of violence and hatred by American politicians and anti-Cuban extremist groups.
Embassy of Cuba - CUBAMINREX