MIAMI, United States. — The Cuban regime came out this Thursday from the information published by the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) about the installation by China of an ‘electronic monitoring’ station on the Caribbean island.
In a official statementCuban Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández Cossio described as “mendacious and unfounded” the publication of wsjwhich warns of the existence of an agreement between the two countries on military matters for the installation of a supposed spy base.
“Regardless of Cuba’s sovereign rights in defense matters, our country is a signatory to the Declaration of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, signed in Havana in January 2014. By virtue of it, we reject any foreign military presence in Latin America and the Caribbean, including that of numerous bases and military personnel from the United States, especially in the military base that illegally occupies a portion of the national territory in the province of Guantanamo,” said the statement read by the Cuban official.
The text indicates that “slander of this type” goes along the same lines as “the acoustic attacks against US diplomatic personnel, the falsehood about a non-existent Cuban military presence in Venezuela and the lie about the imaginary existence of biological weapons laboratories.”
The declaration expresses that, in all cases, these are “fallacies promoted with the perfidious intention of justifying the unprecedented intensification of the blockade, destabilization and aggression against Cuba and of deceiving public opinion in the United States and the world. ”.
“The hostility of the United States against Cuba and the extreme and cruel measures that cause humanitarian damage and punish the Cuban people cannot be justified in any way,” the statement added.
Contrary to the Havana version, the wsj ensures that the information collected on the plans for the station in Cuba is recent and convincing.
Likewise, the newspaper indicates that the officials consulted indicated that the monitoring station would allow China to carry out signal intelligence, including emails, telephone calls and satellite transmission.
It is not the first time that the Cuban regime has denied information that reveals its geostrategic interests, a practice that began in the 1960s and has continued almost to the present day.
At the time, both Fidel Castro and the Soviet Union denied the existence of nuclear rockets on the island, a fact that was later revealed by intelligence information and that would end up unleashing the missile crisis.
For decades, Havana has also tried to deny accusations that have been confirmed over the years, such as the training and financing of Latin American guerrillas and, more recently, the presence of military personnel in Venezuela, the latter fact that has been documented by former officials of the Chavista regime and by the Cubans themselves who have completed a mission in the South American country.
