The publication rejects Washington’s accusations that point to the Caribbean country to try to justify its inclusion in the list of sponsors of terrorism with which the US tightens the levers of the blockade on Cuba.

The People refers to the meeting convened by President Donald Trump’s administration to denounce the left and link it to terrorism, with particular mention to the Caribbean Island.

It’s an old lie and has the advantage that it never needed to be proven, he points out.

It was the United States, and not Cuba, that trained the executors of the Condor Plan, financed death squads in Central America and turned elected governments from Guatemala to Chile, points out the Uruguayan media.

Terrorism launched from U.S. territory caused the explosion in flight of a passenger plane of Cubana de Aviacion, shot down off the coast of Barbados in 1976 “by men trained and protected by Washington, noted the report.”

The article subscribes that the Caribbean island continues to endure a blockade that the UN General Assembly condemns year after year, which makes food more expensive, prevents the arrival of medicines and deliberately punishes an entire population to force a change of government.

He points out that at the meeting convened by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the thesis was that the anti-terrorist doctrine carries a “blind spot” in the face of leftist violence, and that correcting it requires intelligence coordination, visa restrictions, financial persecution and designations as a terrorist organisation.

Rubio’s is the “vocabulary of persecution”, he subscribes.

He emphasizes that at the State Department’s Washington quote on July 16, “there was not a word about right-wing terrorism, which US law enforcement agencies themselves have been documenting for years as the most persistent domestic threat in the country.”

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