Cuba categorically denied on Thursday the information from the US newspaper The Wall Street Journal that the island’s government signed an agreement with China to allow the installation of a large secret spy center on its territory.
The Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, assured in a statement to the media that it is “unfounded information”, “slander” and “fallacies” to justify the United States sanctions against Cuba and destabilize the island.
He added that the Cuban government rejects “all military presence” in Latin America and the Caribbean, including the US in Guantanamo (eastern Cuba).
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According to information from the New York newspaper, the center would allow communications to be intercepted at the regional level. For the installation of this infrastructure, of which no location or more data was provided, Cuba would receive “billions of dollars” as compensation.
“Slanders of this type have frequently been fabricated by US officials, apparently familiar with intelligence information,” criticized Fernández de Cossío.
The diplomat related the content of the article in the US newspaper to other information that has been published in the past, such as the “supposed acoustic attacks against diplomatic personnel” of the US country on the island, “the non-existent Cuban military presence in Venezuela” and “the existence imaginary of chemical weapons laboratories” in the Caribbean country.
“The hostility of the United States against Cuba and the extreme and cruel measures that cause humanitarian damage and punish the Cuban people cannot be justified in any way,” he concluded.
In statements to the US chain MSNBC, John Kirby, spokesman for the White House National Security Council, pointed out that the newspaper’s note is “inaccurate” but that the US “is focused on making sure that it can mitigate any threat from China in the region”.
