Cuba denounces US complicity with violent acts against the socialist nation

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba has released a statement strongly condemning what it calls US complicity with terrorist acts against the socialist nation

Alexander Alazo, who, on April 30, 2020, stood in the middle of a Washington DC street and fired 32 rounds with a machine gun at the Cuban embassy in the US, has been released. Seven people were inside at the time.

In the statement they note: "This action, perpetrated on a central avenue of Washington D.C., the US capital, against a diplomatic mission, with the stated purpose of causing damage, would qualify as a terrorist act in any country of the world. But that is not the case in the United States, much less when this is about a violent action against Cuba. The government of that country has all the while refused to recognize this act for what it is."

It also notes that the "record of the United States government as perpetrator or tolerant accomplice of terrorism and violent acts against Cuba is too well known."

While Alazo was found not guilty by reason of insanity, the ministry points out that there were experts who disputed this at the trial. It also says that US authorities would "rather ignore the evidence on the links and contacts Alazo kept with groups and individuals based in South Florida which have a background of aggressive actions against Cuba, including the instigation of violence and terrorism."