More than 3,400 Cubans have died as a result of aggression from US territory, where notorious terrorists have found safe haven.
By María Josefina Arce (RHC)
Cuba has once again been arbitrarily and unfairly placed on the US list of countries allegedly sponsoring terrorism in 2021, despite the fact that for more than six decades the Caribbean nation has been the target of criminal actions supported and financed by successive US administrations.
More than 3,400 Cubans have died as a result of aggression from US territory, where notorious terrorists have found safe haven.
This was the case of Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosh, the masterminds behind the explosion of a Cuban airliner in mid-flight on 6 October 1976.
Seventy-three people, including Cubans, Guyanese and Koreans, lost their lives in this heinous act. Documents declassified in later years confirmed that US authorities knew of the Cuban-born terrorists' plan and did nothing to prevent it.
In 2010, the Cuban Council of State proclaimed this date as the Day of the Victims of State Terrorism, a day on which the people pay tribute to their children killed or injured as a result of criminal acts.
After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in January 1959, US covert operations began and since then thousands of actions against Cuba have been organized, financed and carried out.
These include economic, military, biological and diplomatic aggression, as well as numerous assassinations attempts on the Caribbean country's leaders.
One expression of Washington's daily terrorism against the Cuban people is the economic, commercial and financial blockade that has hindered the country's socio-economic development for more than six decades, a siege that intensified at a time when Cuba, like the rest of the world, was facing COVID 19.
The inclusion of Cuba, a victim of terrorism, in the illegal US list is yet another pretext to tighten the genocidal blockade and economically suffocate millions of Cubans, and yet another example of Washington's unscrupulous use of such a sensitive issue for the international community for purely political purposes.
