Cuba rejects, in the strongest terms, the report published on July 20 by the United States Department of State, concerning Cuba’s alleged subversive influence against that country. This is a mediocre propaganda pamphlet. It seeks to bolster the mendacious message that Cuba constitutes a threat to the United States, a pretext that the U.S. government uses for collective punishment and genocide against the Cuban people. Through the construction of accusatory narratives, it aims to fabricate support for a potential military aggression.

It is hypocritical for the State Department to accuse Cuba of promoting subversive activities when it is well known that the U.S. government allocates tens of millions of dollars from its federal budget each year to subvert internal order in Cuba, provoke hunger and desperation, and overthrow the Cuban government. This is done by the same government that has a sordid history of interference and violations of international law, that carries out extrajudicial executions in international waters, practices political assassination, sponsors acts of genocide, attacks sovereign countries on every continent, and interferes in the electoral processes of sovereign states.

It is also hypocritical to insist on the lie of labeling Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism. It is evident that neither this report nor any other can present evidence, not even the slightest indication, for such an illegitimate accusation, because it simply does not exist, as is known to specialized agencies of the U.S. government itself. It is, however, common knowledge that those who finance, organize, and instigate violent and terrorist acts against Cuba have found protection and total impunity on U.S. soil.

This report fits into the discourse of supposed “left-wing terrorism,” a novel concept that the U.S. government, and in particular its Secretary of State, are eager to promote as the new enemy. They seek to attack every progressive trait, social commitment, or leftist expression both within and outside the United States, to increase repression, and to establish a neo-McCarthyism.

The aim is, in particular, to repress and attack the American population itself and to intimidate those who express solidarity, including those who denounce their government’s unjust aggression against Cuba. It is recognized that opposition to the energy embargo, the strangulation of the Cuban economy, and the threat of military aggression is growing in the United States, including among Cubans living there and their descendants.

The State Department insists on questioning Cuba’s ties with other sovereign nations, as if international law had disappeared. It manipulates and distorts Cuba’s widely recognized history of solidarity, anti-colonialist and internationalist stance, even within the United States. Every year, Cuba suffers repeated and forceful isolation at the United Nations for refusing to end the economic blockade.

Unable to conceal its hidden admiration for the epic of the Cuban Revolution, the report reveals the fear of a nuclear superpower in the face of the example of social justice and the defense of sovereignty. It demonstrates an inferiority complex toward a national program that prioritizes the people over the elites.

As it has always done, Cuba will continue to foster friendly relations with the people and institutions of the United States, in strict adherence to international law, the Charter of the United Nations, and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

Havana, July 21, 2026

Statement by the President of the Republic of Cuba.

Migel Diaz-Canel Bermudez:

“Every thief thinks everyone else is like them.” No saying better describes the latest U.S. State Department report against Cuba, promoted by one of the most corrupt officials in the current administration, whose links to drug traffickers and terrorists in Florida have been widely documented.

If any country has engaged in extensive espionage and aggression against another, it is the United States against Cuba.

It is well known that millions of dollars are allocated every year to programs aimed at regime change in Cuba, relying on methods ranging from subversion to terrorism.

History records numerous criminal acts against Cuba, including the introduction of pests and diseases, the dengue hemorrhagic fever epidemic that claimed the lives of 101 children, the bombing of a civilian airliner carrying 73 people, hotel bombings, assassination attempts, and psychological warfare.

Added to this is the blockade and its increasingly devastating impact as it is reinforced through tighter economic and energy restrictions. Few acts of subversion against a sovereign state have been as openly conceived and acknowledged as the U.S. policy designed to exhaust the Cuban people and undermine their support for the Revolution.

Throughout its history, the Cuban Revolution has exercised its legitimate right to defend itself against these continuous acts of aggression.

Cuba has never acted to harm the American people, nor has it sought to threaten the national security of the United States.

The resurgence of transnational neo-McCarthyism in the United States, driven by a clearly fascist current, relies on falsehoods to manufacture pretexts for continued aggression against Cuba while also restricting civil liberties within the United States.