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Attack against the Cuban Embassy in Washington. The complicit silence.
By Alexis Bandrich Vega. Ambassador of Cuba in Iran.
Terrorism remains a serious challenge for the international community. It can never be eliminated as long as there are double standards, political opportunism, manipulation and selectivity in dealing with it.
The machine-gunning of the Cuban Embassy in Washington with an AKM assault rifle (30 shots), with the intention of killing, is one of the direct results of the aggressive policy of the United States Government against Cuba, and tolerance and instigation to violence by politicians and anti-Cuban extremist groups settled in that country. Cuba will never forget the long list of terrorist actions against our diplomatic personnel.
The Government of the United States must acknowledge and publicly denounce the terrorist nature of this attack, which left more than 30 bullet holes in the façade and interior of the Cuban headquarters and share with Cuba all the information about it. To do otherwise amounts to complicit, suspicious silence and to tolerating terrorism.
The attitude of the United States government in this case is in direct contradiction with its antiterrorist rhetoric.
While it includes Cuba on a spurious list of countries that do not fully cooperate with the United States' counterterrorism efforts, they do not recognize the terrorist character of the April 30 attack on the Cuban Embassy in Washington.
They hide their long history of State terrorism against Cuba and the impunity of violent groups in their territory.
Instead, there is concrete evidence of Cuba's bilateral collaboration with the United States in the fight against terrorism and in joint law enforcement and enforcement efforts.
Cuba has always expressed the deepest rejection and condemnation of all terrorist acts, methods and practices, in all their forms and manifestations, by anyone who commits them, against anyone, wherever they are carried out; with whatever motivations, including those cases in which States are directly or indirectly involved.
Cuba demands a dignified response from the Government of the United States and that measures be taken to prevent attacks like these from happening again.
September 28, 2020.