US complicity with violent acts against Cuba is strongly rejected - Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba
Minrex | Monday, 7 October 2024 | Click here for original article
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba strongly rejects a new US act complicit with terrorist violence against Cuba.
The US judicial authorities have decided to release Alexander Alazo, the individual who, on April 30, 2020, stood in the middle of the street and shot 32 rounds with a machine gun against the Cuban embassy in that country, at the moment when 7 persons stayed inside the building.
This action, perpetrated on a central avenue of Washington D.C., the US capital, against a diplomatic mission, with the stated purpose of causing damage, would qualify as a terrorist act in any country of the world. But that is not the case in the United States, much less when this is about a violent action against Cuba. The government of that country has all the while refused to recognize this act for what it is. At any one time did it have the intention to prosecute the perpetrator as a terrorist, despite the fact that the nature of his actions is explicitly typified in the US legislation against that scourge.
The record of the United States government as perpetrator or tolerant accomplice of terrorism and violent acts against Cuba is too well known. The protection and support to notorious terrorists is part of the conduct sheet of that country.
A psychiatry expert of the US government, in connivance with the defense attorneys, resolved that Alazo was not “criminally liable” at the moment when he carried out the attack, and therefore he was found not guilty, even when his actions show that he is a danger to society, as was stated by another expert report before the court.
The authorities of the justice system of that country would rather ignore the evidence on the links and contacts Alazo kept with groups and individuals based in South Florida which have a background of aggressive actions against Cuba, including the instigation of violence and terrorism.
Cuba is a country victim of the terrorist acts that are organized, financed and perpetrated from the US territory. It already endured the heartrending experience of 3,478 deadly casualties and 2099 persons who have been injured and suffer from physical disabilities. The country has maintained a firm and categorical stand against that scourge, including State terrorism, and has the duty to demand from the US government a serious, responsible and honest behavior when such an action is committed against the Cuban embassy and the Cuban designated staff.
Havana, October 4, 2024.
