After last week began a rumor about the possible death of Cuban doctors Assel Herrera Correa and Landy Rodríguez Hernándezwho were kidnapped by the extremist group Al-Shabaab in 2019, the regime announced that it would send the president of the National Assembly of People’s Power, Esteban Lazo, to Kenya to try to confirm this information.
According to an official statement shared on social networks by the Cuban Foreign Ministry, the official will arrive in Africa as a “high-level special envoy,” and his mission will be to “open channels of cooperation and clarification with the Kenyan authorities” in relation to the news of the possible death of the doctors.
Esteban Lazo, president of @AsambleaCubato the Republic of #Kenya 🇰🇪 in search of cooperation and clarification.
📌 Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of #Cuba 🇨🇺.
— Chancellery of Cuba (@CubaMINREX) February 20, 2024
It is important to remember that, for almost five years, the Castro regime has been unable to obtain information related to doctors, so it is unknown what Lazo plans to do differently to obtain the tests they need to confirm the death of the victims. doctors.
The news of the death of the kidnapped doctors was shared by the jihadist militia Al-Shabaab, responsible for kidnapping them in Kenya in 2019, Therefore, the veracity of this information has been considered difficult to confirm..
According to a channel Telegram of Al-Shabaab, the death of the doctors occurred during a bombing carried out against them by the United States Army Africa Command (AFRICOM).
As a test, the group shared a photograph of a body that bears a strong resemblance to Assel Herrera Correa, however, the veracity of the image has not been verified, and if it were, it would be almost impossible to determine the date on which said photograph was taken.
As expected, Cuba and the extremist group have blamed the United States, leading many analysts to believe that this may have been a strategy by Al-Shabaab to exert pressure and stop the bombings against their countries. bases.
In that sense, there are those who believe that they themselves could have ended the lives of the doctors, whom they had kept alive all this time to supposedly care for their wounded.
Taking everything into account, Esteban Lazo will arrive in Kenya to obtain detailed information about the military operations that have been carried out in the area, something that the US has already done in recent days.
“There is no knowledge about the circumstances and characteristics of the military operation that the AFRICOM spokesperson confirms to have occurred, whether it was justified, and whether it acted with the obligatory care to avoid collateral damage, protect civilians and innocents, and due respect for international humanitarian law,” maintains the Cuban Foreign Ministry, trying to take advantage of this possible tragedy to attack the reputation of the “Empire.”
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