Washington/Prensa Latina
Four years later, the terrorist attack against the Cuban embassy in the United States remains unpunished, the diplomatic headquarters ratified today when remembering what happened on April 30, 2020.
Gathered at the diplomatic headquarters in this capital, his group remembered this Tuesday what happened that morning. In an event on the second floor of the building, where there are traces of some of the shots, they reiterated their rejection of the terrorism that the Caribbean country has suffered for decades.
“It is inconceivable how the author of this terrorist attack has not yet paid or been convicted,” Asdrúval de la Vega, second secretary of the Cuban embassy, told Prensa Latina.
The diplomat, who witnessed the events, said that at “that time Donald Trump’s government did not issue any communication to our embassy regretting this act for what it really was: terrorism.” “As a young Cuban, for me, terrorism was something that was in the history books, it was something that I saw as quite distant because I had not experienced it,” he added.
But that day here – he emphasized – reminded us all, particularly the youngest, how the staunchest enemies of the revolution are still capable of resorting to these events, the most violent and the most abhorrent, in order to destroy the Revolution.
That April 30, a citizen of Cuban origin identified as Alexander Alazo fired 32 rounds from a semi-automatic assault rifle at the diplomatic representation building in Havana. On 16th Street, one of the busiest and most popular streets in Washington DC, the perpetrator opened fire on the embassy building, where 10 Cuban officials were present, which endangered the lives and safety of the Mission’s personnel. De La Vega stressed.
As it turned out, Alazo planned the attack well in advance and had a license to carry weapons. He owned a Glock brand pistol, and prior to the attack he obtained an AK-47 rifle and two weeks prior he visited the area for scouting purposes.
The reports showed that this individual moved from the state of Pennsylvania with the weapon and ammunition to where the Cuban embassy is located.
An immediate complaint from the Cuban authorities expressed that the United States Government failed to fulfill its obligation to prevent this attack of which there were sufficient signs.
There is a serious history of violent and hostile acts, including terrorist acts against designated diplomatic officials in the United States, both at headquarters in Washington and at the Permanent Representation to the United Nations in New York.
The Cuban diplomat Félix García was murdered in the streets of New York on September 11, 1980 and direct attacks with explosive devices against the headquarters of the Permanent Mission of Cuba in that city are documented. As a result of the impacts of that April 30, material damage to the embassy was reported and the marks that remain are a permanent reminder that this was a direct result of Washington’s historical political hostility towards the island that encourages this type of actions. .
In September 2023, another citizen attacked the Cuban embassy by throwing Molotov cocktails. Nobody has responded either.
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