US State Department Issues 100-Page Cuba Threat Report as Oil Blockade Deepens Island Crisis
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Updated · The Guardian · Jul 21
US State Department Issues 100-Page Cuba Threat Report as Oil Blockade Deepens Island Crisis
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jul 21
Summary
A 100-page State Department report published Monday casts Cuba as a “unique threat” to US homeland security, blaming Havana for upheavals from George Floyd protests to campus “pro-terrorist activism.”
The document advances Washington’s six-month maximum-pressure campaign, which followed Nicolás Maduro’s January abduction and has since expanded into an oil blockade, sanctions on foreign firms and military threats against Cuba.
No new evidence is presented for the report’s broad claims, which also portray US civil-rights and leftwing activism as foreign-influenced and describe Cuba-linked networks as a major hostile influence vector inside the United States.
In Havana, where 24-hour-plus blackouts and food scavenging underscore a deep economic collapse affecting 9.5 million people, critics called the report McCarthyist and likened its tone to Cuban state propaganda.