The Wall Street Journal ran a story June 8 alleging the governments of Cuba and China had made a secret agreement to install a Chinese espionage facility on the island in a new “challenge by Beijing to the U.S.” This is the latest assault by the U.S. rulers against the Cuban government and revolution. The charge was vigorously denied by Havana.
The Journal said its sources are “U.S. officials with highly classified intelligence” who claimed Beijing had agreed to pay Cuba “several billion dollars to allow it to build the eavesdropping station.”
“Slanders such as these have been fabricated frequently by U.S. officials,” including ones about “supposed sonic attacks against United States diplomatic personnel, the falsehood about the nonexistent Cuban military presence in Venezuela and the lie about the imaginary existence of biological weapons laboratories” in Cuba, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío responded the same day.
“All of these are lies with the malicious intention to justify the unprecedented intensification of the blockade, destabilization and aggression against Cuba and to deceive public opinion in the United States and the world,” Fernández de Cossío said.
Washington has waged an economic war against Cuba for over 60 years in a nonstop effort to punish the Cuban people for overthrowing the U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista dictatorship and opening a socialist revolution.
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