Cuba Accuses USA of Inciting Violence

Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez accused the United States administration of inciting the latest violence in the country.

He pointed out that protesters seek to destabilize the country amid threats linked to the Coronavirus (known also as COVID-19).

The minister appeared in a news conference that was quoted by Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency.

He said that protests were violent, opportunists strive to exploit the worse circumstances that have resulted from the pandemic in an attempt to strangle the economy of Cuba.

The minister went on to say the irresponsible behavior may lead to devastating fallouts in the region. It may even jeopardise the national interests of the United States of America (USA).

Rodriguez affirmed that US President Joe Biden and his administration should listen first to their citizens who stand against the blockade imposed by the USA before five decades.

The Cuban government news agency revealed yesterday, Tuesday, that a man was killed and a number of citizens and security personnel were injured during a street demonstration in one outskirt of Havana, the capital city of Cuba.

The injured were carted to hospitals to receive treatment.

This news is the first official recognition of the death of a protester during the demonstrations that broke out last Sunday.

The protests swept through Cuba on the backdrop of the deep economic problem that is storming the Communist-ruled country in addition to spiking rates of infection with the Coronavirus (known also as COVID-19).

The official news agency claimed that groups of the anti-society elements and criminals attempted to reach the police station at La Guneria neighborhood to attack officials and devastate the infrastructure there.

Cuba suffers from rising rates of infection with and deaths of the COVID-19. The third wave of the pandemic is still hitting Cuba.

La Garnema, a Cuban daily newspaper, uncovered that thousands of the citizens took to the streets last Sunday to protest against the economic crisis that led to a severe shortage in food and medicine amid shrieks of the angry demonstrators who shouted "freedom, we’re hungry and down with dictatorship".