Terrorist Attack on Cuban Embassy in Washington, DC, September 24
Another Heinous Act of Terrorism Against Cuba for Which the U.S. Has Yet to Render Accounts
The
Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) denounces the latest act
of terrorism against the Cuban Embassy in Washington, DC, on the
evening of September 24, when two Molotov cocktails were hurled at the
building. The U.S. government has not condemned that attack or the
previous one
which took place on April 30, 2020 when a Cuban expatriate living in the
U.S. sprayed the front of the embassy building with over 30 rounds
using an AK-47 assault rifle. Fortunately the damage from the recent
attack was minor and no personnel were injured. So too, it is by chance
that no-one was
injured in the previous attack either which could well have resulted in
deaths, as the perpetrator admitted to law enforcement was his
intention.
So long as the perpetrators are not punished and the government does not take appropriate measures to deal with such crimes, they foster a modus operandi. In this vein, in the early morning hours of July 27, 2021, three incendiary devices were thrown at the Cuban Embassy in Paris. Two of the "Molotov cocktails" hit the facade and entrance of the building. Embassy personnel were able to put out a fire that had started and there were no injuries. Families with children were inside the building at the time of the attack.
CPC(M-L) also decries Canada's silence about these attacks and its conciliatory approach to the actions of hooligan elements in Canada and their benefactors from Miami who do their best to incite social violence in Cuba and Canada and then, when Cuba defends peace and acts according to rule of law, smear campaigns are spread about Cuba's alleged violation of human rights, lack of democracy and democratic rule of law.
These counter-revolutionary elements have utterly failed over the course of 60 years to achieve regime change in Cuba. With the backing of the U.S. administration, they are making ever more frenetic attempts to stir counterrevolutionary rebellion within Cuba and against Cuba abroad. But the people reject their brutal methods which include using the difficulties the people face as a result of the U.S. blockade to incite opposition to the government. The allegedly peaceful protestors are incited, funded and used by the U.S. and the disturbances have nothing to do with a political movement against the government.
CPC(M-L) calls on Canadians to hold the U.S. government responsible for all these acts of counterrevolution and terrorism and to condemn Canada's appeasement of state terror when it comes to using it against Cuba. Canadians should call on Canada and its media, academics and pundits to disassociate themselves from the acts of hooliganism, terrorism and violence against Cuba. Canada should stop condoning these attacks by claiming they are political when nothing but filthy trash talk comes out of the mouths of the allegedly peaceful protestors. The nonsense that Cuba is totalitarian and authoritarian while the U.S., Canada and others are democratic should stop. Its aim is to divert attention away from who is responsible for the violence in Cuba and to undermine the opposition to the U.S. blockade of Cuba and support for Cuba, which is widespread in Canada. Canada should also take action against the use of Canadian territory for purposes of enforcing the illegal blockade and for spreading calumnies against Cuba.
For the U.S. to tighten the blockade at this time as well as its listing of Cuba as a state which sponsors terrorism, is for purposes of inciting violence in the hopes of achieving regime change. The fact that it considers the people of Cuba dispensable is ample proof of what U.S. democracy and human rights stand for.
CPC(M-L) denounces the Biden administration for spreading lies and disinformation for the purpose of demonizing Cuba's leadership and the supporters of revolutionary Cuba, and inciting counterrevolutionary elements to engage in violent acts like those which the people of Cuba thwarted in Havana on July 11, 2021. It calls on the Canadian government to take no part in such vile activity and instead demand that the U.S. end its criminal economic war against Cuba. The Cuban people must be allowed to solve their problems on their own without outside interference or threats, something they are more than capable of doing.
Victims of State Terrorism Day in Cuba – October 6, 1976
Furthermore,
this October 6 marks the 47th anniversary of the bombing of Air Cubana
Flight 455 by U.S.-backed anti-Cuba terrorists. This heinous act of
terrorism was one of many carried out against Cuba with U.S. backing
from the 1960s to the 1990s and since then. In 2010, Cuba began to
commemorate this date as the "Victims of State Terrorism Day." On this
day, Cuba commemorates its 3,478 citizens who have died and 2,099 who
have been permanently disabled by acts of terrorism, a total of 5,577
victims. These figures do not include victims from other countries,
including Canada,
killed or injured during terrorist attacks aimed at Cuba.
On this solemn occasion, the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) sends deepest condolences to the Cuban people and all victims of these attacks. It stands with the Cuban people and their revolution in opposing terrorism, the use of force as well as "coercive diplomacy" to sort out differences and problems between nations and peoples. It pledges to continue working to support friendly relations between all countries based on mutual respect and benefit and the upholding of the rule of international law as established by the UN Charter.
The anniversary of the bombing of Air Cubana Flight 455 and silence about the terrorist assaults on Cuba's embassy in Washington, DC are timely reminders to Canadians and Quebeckers of the need to end Canada's appeasement of U.S. imperialism and state terrorism and ensure that Canada is a zone of peace, with its own independent foreign policy that upholds the rule of international law. This includes standing up for Cuba's right to be, free from outside interference, terrorism and all forms of aggression, including the unjust U.S. blockade
CPC(M-L) reiterates its condemnation of the U.S. blockade of Cuba, which is both illegal and internationally condemned. The blockade profoundly violates the human rights of the Cuban people and is carried out with the same vicious aim of causing death and destruction as the bombing of Air Cubana Flight 455. CPC(M-L) also condemns the U.S. government for putting Cuba back on its spurious "state sponsors of terrorism" list, citing Cuba's support for the Venezuelan people and their affirmation of their right to be through the Bolivarian Revolution as support for "terrorism." It calls on everyone to take part in the campaign to put one million signatures behind the demand that the U.S. take Cuba off this list now. Join the campaign here: LetCubaLive.info.
This article was published in
Volume 53 Number 10 - October, 2023
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2023/Articles/MS53101.HTM
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