“This new aggression has united us more and elevated the honor, dignity, and anti-imperialist spirit of a people already recognized around the world for their brave resistance to any form of subordination to the empire,” Díaz-Canel said.
Cuban legislator Mariela Castro, Raúl’s granddaughter, told rallygoers that “we are prepared for combat."
“No one is going to kidnap him. I can assure you of that,” she said, alluding to the US invasion and abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on dubious narco-terrorism charges earlier this year. “Neither him nor anyone else.”
"My father is very calm, watching and smiling,” Castro added. “Here, we are prepared to fight imperialism. Cuba is a small and poor country, but one with experience confronting US imperialism. We know that as long as there is an anti-imperialist revolution, there will be a gigantic and ruthless enemy.”
Critics noted the hypocrisy of the Castro indictment, given the ongoing illegal US bombing of boats that the Trump administration claims—without providing evidence—were smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
“Washington has no moral authority to judge anyone,” Gerardo Hernández, coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, said, referring to the boat-bombing campaign, which has killed nearly 200 people in close to 60 reported attacks. “Cuba is a people of peace and reaffirms its legitimate right to self-defense."
“Cuba does not constitute a threat to US security,” he continued. “On the contrary, Cuba is a state under attack by the United States.”
Observers have pointed to the decadeslong US-backed campaign of anti-Castro terrorism against the Cuban people, including the 1976 bombing of Cubana Flight 455, a commercial airliner with 73 people aboard, including 11 Guyanese nationals and 24 teenage members of Cuba’s junior Olympic fencing team. Perpetrators of the attack enjoyed safe haven in the United States, mainly in Miami, where the city
celebrated a day in honor of one of the bombing’s alleged masterminds.“The Cuban people reaffirm the unwavering decision to defend their homeland and revolution," Hernández added. “With the greatest determination, they reaffirm their absolute and firm support for Army General Raúl Castro.”
Are they meant to roll over to the dogs of empire?
I do not expect a US invasion or takeover should Cuba simply STOP PROVOKING THE ORANGUTAN.
Cuba holds no real value outside of being a strategic forward position for the eastern bloc. For them to cease operations as such would be a major achievment for involved US politicians, diplomats, and ambassadors. There doesn’t need to be any real concessions for all aggression to end, they just need them to agree to tell China and Russia to fuck off, enforceable immediately.
Oh yeah, the US has driven away most of the western world’s economies from trading with Cuba - why don’t they just tell their remaining allies to fuck off?
lmao
Their allies are the reason they’re in this shit to start with, it would be a major win for Cubans to no longer be associated with those bloodthirsty fucks.
So, cow tow to the US Idiocracy?
Cuba already Kowtows, least they could do is guarantee their people’s lives.
Sounds a lot like, “If only the Ukrainians had not provoked Putin by persecuting its Russian minority …” Not that Cuba holds nearly as much interest for the US as Ukraine for the Russians but what exactly is the recent provocation of Cuba?