“The General of the Army is Cuba, and Cuba must be respected” 

"The General of the Army is Cuba, and Cuba must be respected… The heroes of the Homeland are not to be disrespected, nor are history and traditions to be offended without response. Not in Cuba," the First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, posted on his social media account, regarding the unfounded accusation by the United States Department of Justice against Raúl Castro Ruz.
"Our people have fiercely risen above the daily hardships and shortages, caused primarily by the genocidal blockade, to respond to the latest infamy of the Cuban nation’s historical enemies: the attempt to prosecute the leader of the Revolution in a U.S. court," he continued.
The Cuban president also noted that this new aggression has further united us and elevated the honor, dignity, and anti-imperialist sentiment of a people already recognized worldwide for their courageous resistance to any kind of subordination to the empire.
Finally, from his digital platform, he again called on the people to gather this Friday morning at the Anti-Imperialist Tribune in Havana, in response to an initiative by the Young Communists League, mass organizations, student groups, and youth movements, to support the leader.
The accusation, announced this Wednesday, "rests on the dishonest manipulation of the incident that led to the downing over Cuban airspace, in February 1996, of two aircraft operated by the terrorist organization Brothers to the Rescue, based in Miami, whose repeated violation of Cuban airspace for hostile purposes was of obvious public knowledge," highlighted the statement issued by the Revolutionary Government.