Fake news is the order of the day
In recent days, anonymous sources in Washington have assured that Panamanian intelligence agencies, in complicity with the local CIA station in that country, are developing a provocation against the island of Cuba to affect relations between the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel and his counterpart Laurentino Cortizo.
The same sources attest that a disinformation operation is being carried out through several governments in Latin America and the Caribbean via the façade of the United States Intelligence Community (Committee) and some Pentagon spokespersons. They have mentioned that, for a change, the promoter of all these actions is the Cuban-American Marco Rubio, a member of the Senate’s select intelligence club, a space he uses to deploy his influence in the intelligence agencies and the State Department.
This time Panamanian intelligence spreads, through fake news, that the capital of the largest of the Antilles would be supporting the demonstrations against Canadian mining companies that have become massive in the Central American republic. To support their slander, they employ journalists at the service of the U.S. Embassy inserted in media such as Glosas de noticias, while trying to create divisions within the demonstrations, pointing to alleged Cuban agents. It is striking that the Cuban ambassador is even linked to a meeting with the Foreign Minister of that country, just because they coincide on the date. This is the same script used by the Americans trying to link Cuban diplomats into countless conflicts.
In the same vein, sources familiar with the subject have denounced that there are multiple U.S. federal agencies involved in training in Panama, mainly in sectors of the opposition, where the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) operate; organizations that give oxygen to the opposition, which benefits from the demonstrations, with financing.
The campaigns of discredit against Cuba, trying to involve it in social protests, come to distract and discourage them by pointing to an external enemy, as the White House has commonly done. In this case, it is worth highlighting the Black Lives Matter protests, where they accused a foreign actor or fictitious group such as Antifa. At the end of Trump’s term, an attempt was made to link Caracas to the alleged manipulation of elections in the United States. It was also mentioned that Cuba, a country blockaded and limited by the use of dollars, had financed this paranoia of Trump.
Por supuesto que los hechos que más han evidenciado el respaldo de estas campañas contra Cuba por parte de los Estados Unidos son los casos de Bolivia y Perú.
America at once
During the November 2019 coup d’état in Bolivia, the U.S. Embassy participated directly, with its officials and assets in the de facto government, for the expulsion of Cuban doctors who participated in medical collaboration in our country. U.S. agents under the guise of diplomats personally verified the expulsion of the doctors. Media outlets at the service of Washington tried to implicate Cuban doctors with the payment of the demonstrations against Janine Áñez. And they even went so far as to imprison, without evidence, doctors to amplify the show.
In the case of Peru, every avenue was used to try to link Cuban diplomatic representatives with security agencies. There, the statements of former Foreign Minister Rodríguez Mckay in the newspaper La Razón stood out, or those of the congresswoman of Avanza País (AP), Patricia Chirinos, who poured unfounded elements in the newspaper Expreso against the Cuban ambassador for unofficial visits to government agencies.
The most incongruous situation was that of Congresswoman Yessica Rosselli Amuruz Dulanto, also of AP, who on her account on platform X (ex-Twitter) accused the Cuban official of being in Cusco, pointing to a false passport number, turning out to be someone else. But, even without evidence, he still requested a motion to ask for the expulsion of the diplomat.
Another of the countries affected with false accusations of support for Cuban defense agencies is Mexico, where the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was held and agents of influence of the State Department such as Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat were in charge of vitiating Cuba’s alleged links with the Russian KGB and the German Stasi with allegorical messages to the Cold War.
Campaign Against Cuban Doctors
Part of the strategy of the United States and USAID, a front for the CIA and the State Department, is to demonize the Cuban Medical Brigades that assist unprotected populations or those with limited access to health services. In this sense, Gutiérrez Boronat himself was emphatic in pointing to these brigades as part of the Cuban strategy of “indoctrination of Mexicans,” which is far from objective reality.
Mexican congressman Salvador Caro Cabrera, a member of the parliamentary group of the citizens’ movement, is one of those who link the medical brigades with intelligence actions; ideas apparently taken from the Hollywood movie or the aforementioned Comintel.
Finally, Ecuador, a country propped up by the Biden administration, guarded by the CIA and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), where drugs and organized crime are rampant, used the far-right newspaper La República at the time, echoing Clarín, an emporium that responds to Washington’s news script. He tried to link the alleged escape to Venezuela of María de los Ángeles Duarte, former Minister of Transport and Public Works in the government of Rafael Correa, to Cuba. This manipulation, without evidence, under the pretext of conspiracies, responds to the interest of affecting the information of the mass of readers using media with a certain reputation and reach. Evidently here was Natasha Niebieskikwiat, a correspondent for Clarín, the agent of influence used by the State Department to spread false information.
Marco Rubio’s obsession with Cuba
All these campaigns seek to magnify Cuba’s ability to influence situations in other countries. They take advantage of crisis situations such as the one that occurred in Chile in 2019 to insert the matrices of suspicious external agents and demonize progressive currents.
Marco Rubio’s main interest is to minimize Cuba’s altruistic and supportive attitude towards the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, in addition to hiding the operations of influence and bias applied by the U.S. government to co-opt freedom and democracy in its “backyard” – as they themselves have defined us. An example of this were the alleged Chinese military bases located in Cuba, for which they relied on photographs of an abandoned military base in San Antonio de los Baños, about 60km from Havana.
Let’s also remember the infamous “sonic attacks” on U.S. diplomats that the “communist regime” would have promoted, part of the Trump administration’s lack of inventiveness. In this “Goebbeline” campaign, the architect was, once again, Marco Rubio, Trump’s main adviser against the Revolution, in his attempt to limit Cuba’s prestige in the international arena as much as possible.
The history of Latin America is eloquent and irrefutable, and confirms how U.S. governments have financed opposition groups such as Venezuela, Nicaragua, Brazil, Mexico and Cuba with enormous resources through contractors such as USAID, NED and the network of front organizations of Comintel. This colonialist practice is supported by the U.S. Congress with public federal funds and is housed in the budget of the Department of Defense.
Finally, to all of the above must be added the actions of coercion, influence and penetration over governmental, political, legislative and military entities around the world, and especially in countries where the ultra-right dominates, where the United States performs best. It is enough to point out how they have manipulated Europe through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and how they influence the world economy with the World Bank (WB) and its transnational banks.
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