On the occasion of the 52nd anniversary of the brutal attack, perpetrated by enemies of the Cuban Revolution, the head of that portfolio denounced the hate crimes committed since the very birth of that revolutionary process, in 1959.

Hateful actions such as these and the legacy of our foreign service martyrs reinforce the determination of Cuban revolutionary diplomacy, said Rodriguez.

On April 4, 1972, at 00:05 (local time) in Montreal, Canada, an attack with plastic explosives destroyed the Cuban Commercial Office in that city, killing Perez Castillo and injuring seven other people.

At the time of his death, the young man -also a militant of the Young Communist League- was 25 years old, had a wife and a 24-month-old child, according to his life record.

The terrorist organizations ‘Joven Cuba’ and the ‘Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil’ based in the United States, claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out by the terrorist Juan Felipe de la Cruz, who died months later in Paris, France, when an explosive that he intended to place in the Cuban embassy there exploded.

The Cuban government has systematically denounced that, for more than six decades, terrorist groups based in South Florida (United States) have been organizing and committing terrorist acts against diplomatic representations of the island abroad, which constitutes a flagrant violation of International Law.

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