Cuban President Denounces U.S. Political Manoeuvre to Justify Military Aggression Against Cuba
President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermudez and
other Cuban leaders at the José Martí Anti-Imperialist Tribune,
May 22, 2026.
On his X account on May 20, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermudez posted the following:
The purported accusation against Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, just announced by the U.S. government, only reveals the arrogance and frustration that the representatives of the empire feel toward the unyielding resolve of the Cuban Revolution and the unity and moral strength of its leadership.
This is a political maneuvre, devoid of any legal foundation, aimed solely at padding the fabricated dossier they use to justify the folly of a military aggression against Cuba.
The U.S. lies and distorts the events surrounding the downing of the planes belonging to the narco-terrorist organization Brothers to the Rescue in 1996.
It knows full well -- given the abundance of documentary evidence -- that no imprudent action was taken nor was international law violated, as U.S. military forces have indeed been doing with their coldly calculated and openly publicized extrajudicial executions against civilian vessels in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
On February 24, 1996, Cuba acted in legitimate self-defence within its jurisdictional waters, following repeated and dangerous violations of our airspace by notorious terrorists -- a fact of which the U.S. administration at the time was alerted on more than a dozen occasions, yet it ignored the warnings and allowed those violations to continue.
The ethical stature and humanistic spirit of his legacy demolish any infamy that might be attempted against Army General Raúl Castro. As a guerrilla commander and as a statesman, he earned the love of his people, along with the respect and admiration of other leaders in the region and the world. Those values are his greatest defence and a moral shield against this ridiculous attempt to diminish his stature as a hero. [...]
Now they cynically claim that there is no oil blockade against Cuba, that everything our people suffer is the fault of the Cuban Government.
They lie over and over again without any shame, with alarming brazenness, without presenting a single piece of evidence to support their claims.
The blame lies with those who order the closure of all access to material and financial resources.
Or has the executive order of January 29, 2026 been suspended, the one that penalizes with irrational tariffs any country that provides fuel to Cuba?
How then to understand that the Treasury Department continues to restrict fuel shipments to Cuba in its systematic updates?
Only very twisted minds could deny to the world that collective punishment being inflicted on an entire people, which is already turning into an act of genocide.
It has been the practice of that empire to start wars and exterminate peoples on the basis of lies.
Facts, not words, are the responses that Cuba and the world demand.
Lift the Bloqueo and we'll see how we fare.
Provincial representatives present more than 6.2 million signed
forms from the "My signature for the Homeland" movement to the
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party
and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, May
19, 2026 as Cuba marks anniversary of the death of José Martí.
(Photos: Cubadebate, Granma)
This article was published in
Volume 56 Number 34 - May 22, 2026
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