By Stanley Ugagbe
The Cuban Government has denounced the terrorism accusations leveled against the nation by the President Donald Trump led United States government.
Bruno Rodriguez, Cuban Foreign Minister described the United States’ accusations to the Caribbean nation regarding terrorism as paradoxical and hypocritical.
Rodriguez, who is the head of Cuban diplomacy on his Twitter account, assured that Washington insists on trying to single out the island in that issue.
The foreign minister said the United States practices State terrorism with a shameful trajectory, from which Cuba has been a victim.
On his part, Cuban Ambassador to the United States Jose Ramon Cabañas also questioned the double standards of the US government regarding international crimes about which it generally keeps complicit silence.
In a post on Twitter, the ambassador said when US and Cuban authorities do not talk about human trafficking, narcotics, smuggling of foreign citizens, terrorism and other international crimes, traffickers and criminals, they praise it.
He added that ‘all these crimes are condemned and fought by the Caribbean island. Cuban authorities have expressed zero-tolerance policy for human trafficking, which makes this nation perform exemplary in preventing and fighting the scourge’.
It would be recalled that the Trump administration had accused Cuba of not “fully cooperating” with the United States’ counter terrorism efforts.
Also, the US had accused Cuba of allegedly participating in drug trafficking, a development that President Miguel Diaz-Canel considered a pretext for more attacks.
