Who Doesn’t Want Peace? 

Every time the slightest possibility of a civilized relationship between the United States and Cuba emerges, those who make their living from the business of war in Miami go to extraordinary lengths and spend whatever it takes to thwart such paths to peace.

It is therefore no coincidence that on the very day when, in an almost miraculous turn of events, representatives from Washington and Havana shook hands in St. Kitts and Nevis to seek, through dialogue, a possible solution to bilateral differences, a group of ten terrorists recruited, trained, and armed in Florida attacked a Border Guard vessel as the aggressors attempted to infiltrate the northern coast of Villa Clara.

But apparently everything was synchronized so that, coincidentally, more than a dozen people recruited in Panama would cover walls in various municipalities of the capital with counterrevolutionary graffiti, after traveling in five rented cars and following a script directed and coordinated from the same location.

The exposed graffiti did not hide the intention to present the massive provocation as an expression of popular discontent over the hardships faced by the Cuban people amid the cruelest campaign to try to suffocate an entire nation, denying them access to vital fuels needed to meet their basic needs—needs that directly impact their quality of life.

But the plan is orchestrated by the most recalcitrant and vengeful, the promoters of the total blockade, from their positions in Congress, through the media war, communicational neo-fascism based on lies, smear campaigns, and crude attacks, and through the subversive projects of media mercenaries, who do everything possible to magnify the limitations, shortages, dissatisfactions, and humanitarian crises generated by the very strangulation measures they support or seek to intensify.

They are the ones who pay, convene, and incite people from Florida to take to the streets to protest the blackouts they themselves cause or the lack of food, water, or medicine, which they also generate with their inhumane measures in the name of "freedom."

Nor is it a coincidence that on the very day President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez announced the news of talks with representatives of the U.S. government, the Machiavellian machinery of the Miami mafia diverted attention and tried to minimize the impact of the announcement with suspicious acts of vandalism in Morón, Ciego de Ávila.

Anti-Cuban far-right congressmen and their subversive network attempt to present acts of vandalism and sabotage—which are very close to terrorism—as "ongoing protests" and "demands for freedom and an end to the dictatorship," when investigations once again point to a possible origin of the events in directives and communications from abroad, and the seizure of certain amounts of money from the detained ringleaders or instigators.

Violent, disrespectful, and defiant behavior—setting fire to furniture, media outlets, and premises; smashing computers on the floor; attacking a pharmacy or a store—has nothing to do with an expression of discontent or a demand for attention. It appears more like the strict fulfillment of the terrorist incitements that abound on certain profiles and pages—real or bot-generated—on digital social media, most of which are based in South Florida or other parts of the world.

The merchants of war and death, 90 miles from the scene, do not want peace; nor truces nor breathing room. This has been confirmed by their top leaders, invested with their arrogant legislative powers, influence, and millions of dollars for hatred, suffering, and deprivation. They make no secret of it and repeat it every few hours on their profiles, and one of the worst, Carlos Giménez, has let it slip more than once: they must "be completely annihilated."