Madrid, March 3 (Prensa Latina) The State Coordinator of Solidarity with Cuba (CESC) of Madrid, today asserted the right of the Caribbean island to defend its territorial integrity by land, sea and air.
In a statement sent to Prensa Latina, the CESC recalled that in the early hours of February 25, a terrorist boat entered Cuban territorial waters and opened fire on the Cuban maritime patrol that ordered it to stop.
In the exchange of gunfire, four of the terrorists from Miami were killed and the Cuban Coast Guard commander was wounded, along with six other terrorists who were captured, he noted.
“The mercenaries captured by the coast guard have subsequently confessed to Cuban authorities their intention to perpetrate terrorist acts in Cuba, for which they were armed to the teeth,” the source said.
The Cuban government has reported this serious incident to the US authorities, but the only thing the latter can think of is to verbally attack the revolutionary island by threatening military intervention, he added.
The statement took the opportunity to highlight the US and Israeli military attack against Iran, as proof that “imperialism was born scattering the corpses of its crimes around the world and it seems that it intends to die in the same way.”
Regarding the thwarted attempt at aggression by sea against Cuba, the CESC stressed that “this is not the first time, and we fear it will not be the last, that attacks of this type occur.”
Their perpetrators carry them out under the protection of the impunity granted to them by acting on behalf of the
imperialism in its terrorist attacks against Cuba, he noted.
In the midst of a fierce economic blockade against the largest of the Antilles, intensified by the administration of Donald Trump, “they thought that Cuba’s response would be different (…) a huge mistake since Cuba has always been and will always be ready to defend its territory, its people and its national sovereignty, from wherever the aggression comes.”
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