“A thief thinks everyone else is a thief,” the leader said, paraphrasing a common saying to characterize the document. He noted that the report was promoted by one of the current administration’s most corrupt officials—a person with proven ties to drug traffickers and terrorists in Florida.

  Writing on the social media platform X, Diaz-Canel condemned the fact that the United States is the country that has spied on and attacked Cuba to an obscene degree.

  “The millions of dollars allocated annually to regime-change programs in Cuba—resorting to both subversion and terrorism—are a matter of public record,” he pointed out.

  The head of state also remembered criminal acts committed against the island nation, including the introduction of pests and diseases—such as the hemorrhagic dengue outbreak that claimed the lives of 101 children—as well as the downing of a plane with 73 people on board, hotel bombings, assassination attempts, and psychological warfare.

  Added to this history is the blockade and the genocidal dimension it has taken on through its current reinforcement and the energy embargo. There is no greater act of subversion against a State—a policy officially conceived and described by the United States as a means to wear down the people and fracture their support for the Revolution, he added in his message.

  He affirmed that throughout its history, the Cuban Revolution has done nothing but defend itself against these successive and endless acts of aggression, exercising its legitimate right to do so.

  “Cuba has never acted to harm the American people, nor has it ever sought to undermine that country’s national security,” he noted.

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