Monrovia, October 6, 2020 - The Cuban Embassy in Liberia today paid tribute to the 73 victims of the terrorist attack committed 44 years ago against a Cubana de Aviación plane off the coast of Barbados, and whose perpetrators were never brought to justice for the crime.
The crime in Barbados is considered to be the worst attack of this kind in the Western Hemisphere and one of the most brutal acts of terrorism carried out against the Cuban Revolution by people in the service of the CIA.
The families of the 73 victims of that terrorist act live under the shadow of injustice, since those intellectually responsible naturally ended their lives without paying for their crimes.
In Cuba, October 6 was officially established as the Day of the Victims of State Terrorism. The date was chosen precisely to remember the crime against the plane, whose perpetrators had proven links with the US Central Intelligence Agency. This date should be an opportunity to warn of the spread of such actions around the world, even in countries where they never existed.
The list of terrorist acts against the largest of the Antilles is long, and ranges from military aggression, to economic, biological, diplomatic, psychological, media, espionage, as well as the execution of acts of sabotage and assassination attempts on leaders.
The history of these types of actions does not end there, since on April 30 of this year the island's embassy in Washington was attacked by bullets and the Cuban authorities showed evidence linking the author of the shots to extreme right-wing groups in Florida.
After that shooting, the State Department included Havana in a unilateral list of countries that 'do not cooperate' in the fight against terrorism, which Cuba described as 'a political, deliberate and profoundly dishonest act'.
The shots fired at our country's embassy in Washington on April 30th, and the silence that followed, are nothing more than a confirmation of the validity of that policy which seems to have no end. It is proof of the chronic hypocrisy of those who, in 2001, declared themselves sworn enemies of terrorism.
Embacuba Liberia