Revolutionary Armed Forces
“Avispas Negras”, or “Black Wasps”, the special forces of the Cuban army
Havana does not see “any justification” for possible military action in Cuba, “a peaceful country that does not pose any threat” to the US, but “it would be naive” for Cuban leaders to ignore the possibility of a US military attack.
Cuba’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernández de Cossíostated this Sunday that the country’s armed forces are preparing for a possible military aggression from the United States of America.
“Our armed forces are always prepared and, in fact, in these days, they are preparing for the possibility of military aggression”, he said, in an interview with the North American program “Meet the Press”, on NBC News.
“Our country has always been willing to mobilize as a nation as a whole in the face of military aggression. The truth is that we have always seen this as something very distant. We do not believe it is likely, but we would be naive if we didn’t prepare,” he said.
Tensions between the United States and Cuba intensified this year, following the capture and detention of the previous President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduroin January of this year, by North American forces, in a ., which was at the time considered a for the Cuban Secret Service.
At the time, Donald Trump and the Secretary of State, Marco Rubioson of Cuban immigrants, warned that Cuba could be the next country to face US military intervention.
In January, the US president signed a executive order in which he threatened high rates on products from countries that sell or supply oil to Cuba.
A Cuba’s economy collapsed since the Trump administration detained Maduro, notes the . The US has cut off oil supplies to Venezuela, essential to sustaining the Cuban economy, and the country’s transportation, healthcare and education systems are also strained.
The North American blockade has been causing severe disruptions in energy supply, with daily blackouts across the country. On Saturday, power grids collapsed on Saturday, leaving Cuba no electricity for the third time this month.
This month, Trump warned that it will happen until the US controls Cuba, and that it will happen with the island located in the north of the Caribbean.
In the interview with NBC News, the Cuban Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs stressed that the country does not see “any justification” for possible military action in Cuba, because the country is peaceful and poses “no threat” to the United States.
According to North American newspapers and , the North American Government is already seeking, within the scope of negotiations with Havana, a substitute for the Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canelseen as an obstacle to an understanding for negotiations between the two countries.
The Trump administration intends, says the NYT, to overthrow a key figure in the Cuban regime, keeping the repressive communist government in power who has governed Cuba for more than 65 years. The Americans signaled to Cuban negotiators that the president must leave — but they are leaving the next steps up to the Cubans.
