Washington warned that its diplomats will continue meeting with the Cuban people despite the regime’s failed intimidation tactics.
LIMA, Peru – The Department of State in the United States, through its Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs, denounced this Sunday the recent acts of repudiation organized by the Castro regime against the chargé d’affaires who represents Washington in Cuba, Mike Hammer.
“The illegitimate Cuban regime must immediately cease its repressive acts of sending people to interfere with the diplomatic work of CDA Hammer and members of the US Embassy team in Cuba,” the US entity warned in a publication your official X account (formerly Twitter).
In its complaint, the State Department warned that its diplomats will continue meeting with the Cuban people despite the regime’s failed intimidation tactics.
Since his arrival in Havana in 2023, Mike Hammer has maintained a clear public position in favor of fundamental freedoms in Cuba. During his administration, he has denounced arbitrary arrests, repression against activists and independent journalists, and has advocated for respect for the rights of expression, assembly and movement, in a political context marked by the social and economic crisis.
Last Saturday, the Cuban regime orchestrated several acts of repudiation against Mike Hammer, after his arrival in Camagüey.
in a video spread on social networks It shows how a small group mobilized by the Cuban dictatorship was waiting for Hammer outside his lodging to start the event, where they shouted slogans that were complacent with the official speech in a belligerent tone.
After the altercations, one of the participants in the act of repudiation was identified this Sunday in Camagüey.
These are Yoel Santiesteban, head of the Organization Department of the Provincial Committee of the Union of Young Communists (UJC); who recognized via Facebook be one of the participants of the “show”.
“José Luis Tan and his accomplices denounce my presence in the show that was put on for Mike Hammer in Camagüey. Of course I was there! What can you expect from a young communist?” wrote Santiesteban.
The journalist and professor from Camagüey José Raúl Gallego He explained on social networks that the Provincial Committee of the UJC is located on General Gómez Street between Apodaca and República. For its part, the Hostal Santa María, where the act of repudiation prepared by State Security against Hammer took place, is located on Ignacio Agramonte and República streets, just about two blocks between both points.
“The rest of the participants surely work in that same place. It is not ‘the people of Camagüey’ who attacked Hammer. No one believes that. They were political cadres coordinated by State Security,” denounced Gallego.
