Table de concertation de solidarité Québec-Cuba
Last Monday [September 24], dark forces hurled two incendiary cocktails at the Cuban embassy in Washington, DC, just after the Cuban President's visit to the UN and a visit to the Bronx to pay tribute to Malcolm X, a Black leader who stood in solidarity with Cuba.
These reactionaries continue to hate Cuba. By attacking the embassy with terrorist methods, they are showing their true face as counterrevolutionaries. This country, which is honourably fighting a vile blockade by the United States, has always had the greatest respect for methods of persuasion rather than terror. In order to discredit Cuba, attempts are being made to attack its legal institutions, which have been accepted by the international community. This is a despicable way of opposing the government of this small country, which sends doctors rather than bombs around the world.
These methods, which must be denounced loud and clear by the international community, discredit opponents of the Cuban government and disqualify them being able to say they operate according to the widely accepted rules of elementary democracy. They show the anger that a dignified people can arouse in the extreme right in the USA who want to do battle with them.
In support of their government, the Cuban people can only condemn the targeting of their country's representatives by terrorists. The integrity of embassies is guaranteed by international law and the conventions governing relations between countries.
The United States must take all measures to ensure that these rules are respected on its territory. We cannot invoke rules-based international relations all over the planet and at the same time allow them to be violated on our own territory, in contravention of established norms.
If the U.S. far right wants to fight the U.S. government, Cuban diplomats should not have to pay the price. It's up to the U.S. government to stand up to the threat to the rules and norms of international law, and to control its extremists.
We call on the Canadian government to cooperate fully with the U.S. government to identify the perpetrators of this attack and others in the past, and to prevent the entry into Canada of individuals associated with them. We recall that in the past the diplomatic corps of the Republic of Cuba in Montreal suffered a similar attack on April 4, 1972, resulting in the death of diplomat Sergio Perez Castillo, presumably the work of one of the many anti-Castro groups operating out of Miami, according to the police report. (Ref. Notre mémoire collective, Explosion fatale et incident diplomatique, boulevard Crémazie est, by Robert Côté, O.C., retired chief inspector and member of the Musée de la police.)
(September 27, 2023. Translated from original French by TML.)
This article was published in
Volume 53 Number 10 - October, 2023
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