No country has the right to turn its diplomatic representation into a general quarters for subverting constitutional order
Cuban government obliged to curtail the movements of the head of the U.S. Interests Section within national territory
Number of people linked to James Cason’s conspiratorial activities detained and to be arraigned
OUR people have heard with profound indignation, the public denunciation of repeated provocations by the head of the U.S. Interests Section in Cuba, clearly conceived and enacted as part of the current administration’s hostile and aggressive policy toward our country, with the close cooperation and support of the Miami terrorist mafia and the extreme right in the United States.
Popular indignation has increased with the cowardly and cruel vengeful measures taken against our five compatriots who have been arbitrarily sanctioned with lengthy and unjust prison terms — in certain cases to life — far from their country and families.
Although the Cuban government goes to great lengths to comply with the norms and principles regulating diplomatic relations between states, attempts and will continue attempting to act with all serenity, offers and will continue to offer a total guarantee of security for U.S. diplomatic personnel working in our country — as it does with the diplomatic corps in general — it now finds itself obliged to curtail the former’s movements within our national territory in response to measures adopted recently by them against our diplomatic personnel in Washington.
No matter how powerful, no country has the right to turn its diplomatic representation into a organizing, funding general quarters in order to destabilize and subvert constitutional order, violate laws, conspire against social development, sabotage economic relations, threaten security and destroy the independence of our nation.
Utilizing diplomatic immunity, franchises and headquarters in order to openly carry out such activities constitutes an unwonted and cynical practice. The norms established within international law for dealing with those practices will be applied.
The intentions of the enemies of the Revolution are evidently to deliver a blow to and affect friendly relations and ties which, as the truth about our country and its unmatched work of justice and humanism has been revealed have been patiently and progressively created between the people of Cuba and the United States, in spite of the flood of lies and slander that have been presented to U.S. and world public opinion in the midst of an unjust and despicable merciless, has been presented to U.S. and world public opinion. We appreciate those relations with the people of the United States and will continue to fight for them, no matter what difficulties might arise.
It is their shamelessly stated proposition to organize a mercenary force from within, like the one that invaded us at the Bay of Pigs on the orders of a foreign government, or formed armed bands, or killed teachers and literacy campaigners, attacked vessels, kidnapped fishermen, engaged in thousands of acts of sabotage and sowed terror and grief in our country. This time they have entered disguised as apparently inoffensive lambs in order to assist that same government’s criminal policy on our homeland by means of calumny, justifying the blockade, economic strangulation and the isolation of our people. In the face of that proposition, there is not the slightest doubt that the Revolution will apply, with all necessary rigor and as the circumstances warrant, the laws created to defend ourselves from new and old tactics and strategies against Cuba.
For these reasons, a few dozen persons directly linked to the conspiratorial activities headed by James Cason have been arrested by the relevant authorities and will be brought to trial.
On many occasions, the Revolution has been generous and tolerant in virtue of its immense political strength and capacity to resist any type of aggression on any terrain. This has been demonstrated for the last 44 years. From a humanitarian point of view, it was demonstrated in the case of the Bay of Pigs mercenaries who only received a few months imprisonment, the hundreds of counterrevolutionaries implicated in plans to assassinate the Revolution’s leaders, and the thousands of individuals who carried out acts of sabotage and other crimes, all in the service of the U.S. government. These were released before completing their sentences and permitted to travel to and reside in the United States. Suitably severe laws against serious acts in complicity with the enemy that wants to destroy us have not been applied, although they are fully in force.
But this should not deceive anyone into thinking that acts of treason in the service of a foreign power, endangering our security and the interests of our heroic homeland will have guaranteed impunity. The Revolution’s generosity and tolerance should not be expected when we are witnesses to brutal and repugnant acts like the cruel and merciless treatment being meted out to our five heroic compatriots who risked their lives defending their people and the U.S. people against terrorism and death, whilst mercenaries without scruples or conscience — the vast majority of whom are hardened slackers — are living by selling off the portions of the homeland for the empire’s gold anticipating impunity.
Those who know the Cuban Revolution know full well that it has never resorted to bluff, nor is there any force in the world capable of intimidating it.