Cuba has dismantled a “terrorist plan organized and financed by the USA,” the Inside Ministry introduced in an announcement revealed Sunday within the state-run newspaper Granma.
In line with the press launch, the investigation, carried out by the “specialised our bodies” of the Ministry of the Inside, led to the arrest of a person recognized as Ardenys García Álvarez, “the primary perpetrator of those actions, which came about in the USA.”
García Álvarez “illegally entered Cuba by sea and introduced in firearms and ammunition as a part of a brand new recruitment plan to hold out violent actions in our nation,” it mentioned.
In line with the identical supply, the accused emigrated illegally to the USA in 2014.
The investigation by the Ministry of the Inside “prevented the implementation of plans designed, directed and financed, as soon as once more, from the USA,” the textual content concludes.
In December, Cuba revealed for the primary time a “Nationwide Record of Terrorists” that included a number of dozen individuals and organizations that Havana accuses of being linked to “acts of terrorism.”
All of them are situated exterior the island and the bulk are in the USA.
Amongst them are individuals accused by Havana of being concerned in a sequence of bomb assaults on inns within the capital in 1997 or in failed assaults towards former chief Fidel Castro (1926-2016) between 1991 and 2001.
In Could, Washington eliminated Cuba from its checklist of nations that don’t absolutely cooperate within the combat towards terrorism, however the island stays on the US blacklist of nations that assist terrorism, which additionally contains Iran, North Korea and Syria.
In 1962, the USA imposed a industrial and monetary embargo on Cuba, which was intensified beneath the presidency of Republican Donald Trump (2017-2021), who reinstated the island on this blacklist.
The Cuban authorities periodically denounces an “arbitrary” choice that hinders monetary flows and investments on the island. DJ
