Terrorism against Cuba

“Cuba has the duty and responsibility to protect its territorial waters”

“Cuba has the duty and responsibility to protect its territorial waters”

Statements by Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

Photo: Dunia Álvarez

Cuba reaffirmed yesterday, through Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío, its absolute and categorical commitment against terrorist acts, methods, and practices in all their forms and manifestations.
“Our country maintains an exemplary record in the fight against terrorism, and has fulfilled and will continue to honor the commitments it has made in this area,” he emphasized, while also stressing that Cuba is a party to the 19 international conventions related to terrorism, in accordance with which it has implemented legal and institutional measures aimed at its effective combat.
In a statement to the press, he maintained that “Cuba has the duty and responsibility to protect its territorial waters.” And it does so in accordance with International Law, which applies to all countries, including the United States itself, he said. “It is also part of the national defense of the Cuban State, as an indispensable pillar for the protection of our sovereignty, life, security and well-being of Cubans.”
In a context where the island denounced the attempted infiltration of the Cuban Navy on Wednesday by ten individuals aboard a vessel registered in the state of Florida, for terrorist purposes, Fernández de Cossío reported that, once the origin of the vessel was detected, Cuban authorities have been in communication with their counterparts in the United States, including the State Department and the Coast Guard.
He also announced that an investigation is underway to thoroughly clarify what happened. “The Cuban government is willing to exchange information with the U.S. government regarding this incident,” he stated. “Among other requests, we will ask for information about those involved, the vessel used, and other details, through the existing mechanisms between the two countries. U.S. government authorities have expressed their willingness to cooperate,” he emphasized.
As part of the preliminary information, the Vice Minister cited the following ten individuals as being involved in the incident: Cristian Ernesto Acosta Guevara, Conrado Galindo Serrior, José Manuel Rodríguez Castelló, Leordán Cruz Gómez, Amijail Sánchez González, Roberto Álvarez Ávila, Pavel Alling Peña, Michael Ortega Casanova, Ledián Padrón Guevara, and Héctor Duani Cruz Correa. The last four were killed during the attack.
He noted that Rolando Roberto Ascorra Consuegra was initially mentioned due to an error in identification, as he is not part of the group, “although he is a person known for his history of involvement in violent actions and intentions against Cuba.”
About the weapons occupied in the vessel he detailed that assault and sniper rifles were found; pistols; Molotov cocktails; multiple assault equipment, including night vision devices, bulletproof vests, assault bayonets, camouflage clothing, ammunition of various calibers, food for use in combat, the media and a large group of monograms from counter-revolutionary organizations with terrorist orientation.
“This is not an isolated incident,” stated Fernández de Cossío. “Cuba has been the victim of aggression and countless terrorist acts for more than 60 years, most of them organized, financed, and carried out from U.S. territory.”
In this regard, he noted that, in recent years, the island has denounced the increase in violent and terrorist plots and actions against it, as well as the prevailing sense of impunity among the organizers and perpetrators.
The Caribbean nation has regularly provided the U.S. government with information on individuals who have promoted, financed, and organized violent and terrorist acts against the world. This includes the National List of individuals and entities that have been subject to criminal investigations and are wanted by Cuban authorities, compiled in accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373, the norms and principles of international law, and Cuban law.
Specifically, two of the perpetrators, Amijail Sánchez González and Leordan Enrique Cruz Gómez, are included on that list, which is shared with the U.S. for the years 2023 and 2025. “The Cuban government is still awaiting responses to its requests regarding them and the other individuals and organizations included on the issued list. Anti-Cuban groups operating in the United States resort to terrorism as an expression of their hatred for Cuba and the impunity they believe they enjoy,” he stated.

Photo: Dunia Álvarez
Photo: Dunia Álvarez

 

Terrorism against Cuba is state policy

Piracy and terrorism at sea: more than six decades of dirty warfare

Piracy and terrorism at sea: more than six decades of dirty warfare

The history of aggression against Cuba by anti-Cuban groups organized, trained, and financed in the United States is extensive and very well documented

Author:  | informacion@granmai.cu

As a result of the attack near Boca de Samá, Nancy Pavón, only 15 years old, had to have her foot amputated. Photo: Granma Archives

The armed incident that occurred in the waters of the El Pino channel, Falcones Cay, Corralillo municipality, Villa Clara province, where a speedboat with Florida registration (FL7726sh) opened fire on a unit of the Border Guard Troops of the Ministry of the Interior, is not an isolated case.
The history of aggression against Cuba by anti-Cuban groups organized, trained, and financed in the United States is extensive and very well documented. For years, attacks against Cuban coastal towns, fishermen, and vessels established a pattern of violence that has continued for more than six decades to the present day.
To cite just a few examples, in 1963, two landing craft from a mother ship opened fire with bazookas and machine guns on the Patricio Lumumba sulfuric acid plant on the northern coast of Pinar del Río.
A notable instance of criminal action against Cuban fishermen

caried out directly by U.S. authorities on February 3rd, 1964, when several units of the U.S. Navy boarded and seized the Cuban fishing vessels Lambda 8, Lambda 39, Cárdenas 14, and Cárdenas 19 in international waters, along with their 38 crew members.
One of the most heinous acts of aggression was committed on October 2nd, 1971, by two speedboats from Florida against the coastal community of Boca de Samá, in the municipality of Banes, Holguín. The results of this “valiant action” were two deaths and four injuries, including sisters Nancy (15 years old) and Ángela Pavón (13 years old).

In October 1972, several armed speedboats attacked the Cuban fishing vessels Aguja and Plataforma 4 near Andros Island in the Bahamas. A year later, the Cuban fishing boats Cayo Largo 34 and Cayo Largo 17 suffered the same fate, with fisherman Roberto Torna Mirabal being fatally wounded.

Then, on April 6th, 1976, a pirate speedboat attacked two Cuban fishing vessels, the Ferro 123 and the Ferro 119, sinking them with machine gun fire in the area between Cayo Anguila and Cayo Sal. The crew of the Ferro 123 were wounded and left adrift.
In another incident, dating back to 1992, a U.S. speedboat collided with a Cuban patrol boat, causing the former to sink and several of its crew members to die.
The list of criminal actions carried out by pirate vessels operating from U.S. territory is long. It is high time to put an end to such practices.

In Context:
October 14th, 1990: Terrorists Gustavo Rodríguez Sosa and Tomás Ramos Rodríguez infiltrated through Santa Cruz del Norte, Havana.

September v, 1991: Two terrorists from Miami were arrested. Their objective was to sabotage tourist stores. Weapons and a radio transmitter were seized.

December 29th, 1991: Two individuals from Miami were captured in Cárdenas, Matanzas. Their plans included sabotaging economic facilities and other public and recreational services.

October 7th, 1992: A pirate attack was carried out on the Meliá Varadero Hotel by an armed speedboat belonging to the terrorist organization Comandos I.

April 2nd, 1993: The Maltese-flagged tanker Mykonos, with a Cuban-Cypriot crew, was machine-gunned seven miles north of Matanzas.

February 11th, 1996: Shots were fired at the Meliá Las Américas Hotel by a speedboat that entered the area at night.

September 17th, 1996: Cuban-born terrorist Pedro Pablo Pulido Ortega was captured. He had infiltrated Cuba through the Chambas area of ​​Ciego de Ávila province with a shipment of weapons, ammunition, and other supplies for carrying out terrorist attacks.

May 19th, 1996: Terrorists residing in the U.S. landed on the coast of Pinar del Río with the mission, among others, of establishing a stronghold of bandits in the mountains of that region.

April 26th, 2001: Counterrevolutionaries residing in Miami, linked to the F-4 Commandos and Alpha 66 organizations, were captured while attempting to infiltrate northern Villa Clara province.

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Cuba fight drug trafficking

Cuba honors its commitments in the fight against drug trafficking

Cuba honors its commitments in the fight against drug trafficking

Through the Cuban Foreign Minister, Vietnam and Russia ratify their historic position of support for the Island

Author:  | informacion@granmai.cu

The latest edition of the U.S. bimonthly magazine The American Conservative argued, with solid reasoning, that “the current policy toward Cuba undermines the very objectives and principles that underpin the National Security Strategy” of Donald Trump’s administration.
It added that, despite Washington’s constant statements about drug trafficking as a threat to national security, the policy toward the island ignores an uncomfortable truth: “Cuba is the U.S. government’s main security partner in the Caribbean.”
A few days later, a “national emergency” against Cuba was announced, based on the untenable lie that the small country allegedly “constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat” to Washington’s security and foreign policy.
The White House has lost its memory, misplaced or concealed very important and positive information about cooperation between Cuba and the United States in the areas of security, law enforcement, and compliance, in order to combat transnational scourges that affect the national security of both countries.
At the beginning of the first Trump administration, there were already 22 bilateral cooperation instruments and eight technical working groups on counterterrorism, drug trafficking, cybersecurity and cybercrime, travel and trade security, human trafficking and immigration fraud, money laundering and financial crimes, human trafficking, and criminal legal assistance. But the president’s Florida advisers did everything possible to render them meaningless and freeze them.
In this regard, the article in The American Conservative argues that the current policy “is not based on our fundamental national interests, but on Cold War nostalgia and Florida state politics.”
Contrary to the administration’s claims of alleged “ill will,” “relations with malign actors,” and “hostility,” it has not been Cuba that has failed to fulfill its commitments, but rather the one that has insisted on reactivating mechanisms buried by political interests that threaten the security of both countries and the region. Despite not being reciprocated, Cuba has not stopped fighting on all the aforementioned fronts, and counterpart agencies are well aware of this.
A recent press conference revealed that, in the last 14 years, Cuba’s Border Guard Troops had seized more than 40 tons of drugs destined for the United States, and between 2024 and 2025 alone, 14 speedboats were captured, 39 drug traffickers were arrested, and more than four tons of various substances were seized. Meanwhile, 72 operations involving different types of drugs from 11 countries, with the United States as the main source, were disrupted by air in the last two years.
Another very telling fact is that, from 1990 to the end of 2025, Cuba had sent 1,547 formal messages to the U.S. Coast Guard reporting incidents or situations related to drug trafficking, and received 468 messages from its counterpart. That three-to-one ratio is further evidence of who is really promoting cooperation in this area.
This reality is acknowledged in the aforementioned article in the conservative U.S. magazine when it states that “Cuba is widely recognized as a positive example in the fight against drug trafficking in Latin America, working closely with the U.S. Coast Guard and other US agencies to track drug traffickers, share intelligence, and intercept smuggling routes across the region.”
The most recent aggression against our people proves The American Conservative right when it states that, “unfortunately, policy toward Cuba remains trapped in a failed regime-change logic that dates back to before the end of the Cold War,” which has been kept alive by “a policy controlled by a handful of intransigent Cuban-Americans who have insisted for decades that the only acceptable outcome is total surrender. That is not negotiating. It is a recipe for failure.”

Blockade of Cuba

Six decades of siege: the arsenal of evil against Cuba

Six decades of siege: the arsenal of evil against Cuba

On February 3, 1962, John F. Kennedy issued Proclamation 3447, which formalized the economic, commercial, and financial blockade against the island

Author:  | informacion@granmai.cu

Photo: José Manuel Correa

Like harbingers of the underworld, Donald Trump and his clique send messages of desolation and death against the Cuban people. The Executive Order of January 29 issued by the president exudes this sentiment; for the emulators of Thanatos, the goal is clear: to turn Cuba into a modern Numancia.
For the island, this siege is nothing new. Convinced of the majority support of the people for the Revolution, since its inception the United States has set out to undermine the foundations of the new power and induce rebellion.
The strategy has been unchanged: weaken the economy to provoke hunger, despair, and the overthrow of the government. A coldly conceived policy to plunge the Cuban people into misery. Thus, on April 6, 1960, the memorandum from Lester D. Mallory, then Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, defined the soul of this war.
Shortly thereafter, in June 1960, Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz appeared on Cuban television to denounce that, on instructions from Washington, foreign companies were attempting to boycott oil processing.
The reduction in fuel supplies, the refusal to refine Soviet crude oil, and the elimination of the sugar quota were only the prelude to what would become the longest genocide in history. On February 7, 1962, Executive Order 3447, signed by President John F. Kennedy on the 3rd, came into effect, formalizing the blockade by invoking the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917.
That was only the beginning. Looking back at the history of this unilateral war, it seems that Washington’s arsenal of evil is inexhaustible. Administration after administration, the mechanisms of coercion and encirclement were perfected: of the 32 tasks of “Operation Mongoose”—the vast terrorist plan designed after the defeat at Playa Girón—15 were specifically directed against the island’s economy.
Frustration, arrogance, and hatred gave rise to laws such as the Torricelli and Helms-Burton Acts, or the Bush Plan, which reinforced them. During his first term, Trump issued more than 243 hostile measures, a policy that Joe Biden continued despite his campaign promises.
Now, the White House has set out to bring surgical precision to its aggression against the nation’s economy and life, seeking to leave no stone unturned. But it is not so easy to defeat the Cubans, as a recent statement by the U.S. president says it all: “The only option left is to go in and destroy Cuba.”
During more than six decades of economic warfare imposed by the world’s greatest power, the Cuban project has shown extraordinary resilience, achieving victories in all areas that defy the logic of the siege.