The US State Department, under the direction of its head Marco Rubio, published a report pointing out the same lies that the so-called head of US diplomacy never tires of repeating to try to argue the absurd idea that Cuba represents a "serious threat to US national security" for supposedly fostering, organizing and supporting what he calls the so-called "terrorist far left".
The report argues that a considerable portion of the political conflict within the United States can be linked, in one way or another, to Cuban influence. Thus, widespread discontent and protests against problems stemming from racial segregation, police violence, inequality, imperialist wars, the genocidal occupation of Palestine, and racist U.S. immigration policies, among other issues, are falsely attributed to alleged organizing and leadership from Cuba. Cuba is presented as the main explanation for this discontent “sown in American society.”
Thus, for example, the Black Life Matters movement is explained by the supposed influence of Havana, and not by its true roots of racial segregation, the Ku Klux Klan, racist assassinations (Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, among other murdered African American leaders) and brutal police repression against minorities.
It is cynical that the Secretary of State attempts to portray Cuba as a promoter of terrorist groups or actions, when it is precisely the US that, for over 66 years, has fostered an endless list of terrorist acts against Cuba. The introduction of plagues and diseases (such as the dengue hemorrhagic fever epidemic that claimed the lives of 101 innocent children), the criminal attack on a Cubana de Aviación plane with 73 people on board, the more than 600 assassination plots against the country's leaders, the planting of bombs in hotels and tourist resorts—the list is endless. So what do Marco Rubio and the State Department hope to achieve by publishing this new falsehood? The sole objective is to try to justify the inhumane policy of total economic strangulation that the US is currently applying against the entire Cuban people, and to try to convince American public opinion in favor of military aggression against Cuba.
The new “Washington anti-terrorist” campaign (in which it attempts to place Cuba at the center of its agenda) not only constitutes a real threat to the sovereignty of those countries that refuse to submit to its imperial designs, but also to all progressive forces that, under the belief that a better world is possible, are fighting to leave a more humane, secure, and just future for their children and grandchildren. This current onslaught is also directed against all political forces within the United States itself that oppose the fascist policies of the current administration. The aim is to broaden the list of America’s “enemies” beyond just immigrants and drug traffickers, to include what it calls the “radical left,” which includes even centrist Democrats, environmental groups, organizations that protect the rights of immigrants and the LGBT community, and groups that define themselves as anti-fascist, among many others. Prominent politicians such as the mayor of New York City, several federal and state legislators, candidates for the upcoming midterm elections next November, and even a former presidential candidate and influential and renowned federal senator like Bernie Sanders, among others, are targets of this crusade.
Columnist Sara Pequeño wrote in USA Today newspaper: “It’s funny that Republicans can see extremism in everyone else but fail to recognize it in themselves.” While the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) wants absolutely radical policies like Medicare (federal health insurance for the elderly) for all and universal childcare, the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement (the one led by Trump) stormed the U.S. Capitol, destroyed the social safety net, terrorized immigrants and the GMO community, and imposed “a war with Iran that wrecked the economy.”
Today, more than ever, the words of the famous German writer and Nobel laureate Thomas Mann ring true: "When fascism returns, it will do so in the name of freedom." That is precisely what the Secretary of State and his fascist Government are attempting today.