The foreign ministers of Venezuela’s socialist regime and Cuba’s communist regime began a visit to China this week to meet with Communist Party officials, state media from all three nations reported.
John Kirby railed against “shameful” leaks indicating that China is working on building, or may already have, a spy base in Cuba.
The foreign minister of Cuba railed against the United States for its “racist” policies and its alleged lack of respect for human rights in a meandering press conference on Monday – the first major declaration from the Castro regime after President Joe Biden offered friendly talks to the Communist Party last week.
The U.S. Department of State announced on Thursday it had expelled two diplomats representing Cuba at the United Nations for activities that were harmful to American national security, including “influence operations.”
A Venezuelan general who participated in a failed coup d’etat alongside Hugo Chávez in 1992 published a video this week urging soldiers to rise up against dictator Nicolás Maduro and suggested the communist government in Cuba killed Chávez to install Maduro as their puppet.
President Donald Trump asserted on Monday that the communist Castro regime in Cuba was responsible for a series of unexplained attacks on American diplomats, the first issuance of blame in the matter by an American official.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters Tuesday that the agency’s lawyers “would certainly … be looking at” the possibility that, in failing to prevent physical attacks on American diplomats and their families, Cuba may have violated the 1961 Vienna Convention.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez declared there is “no evidence” that American diplomats have suffered acoustic attacks, leaving them with hearing loss and brain damage, at a press conference Tuesday responding to the expulsion of 15 Cuban diplomats from U.S. soil.
The Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba published a report this week detailing the alarming extent to which the communist Cuban regime has entrenched itself in Venezuela, controlling every government function, from the nation’s failing health care system to dictator Nicolás Maduro’s private security.
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su-yong arrived in Havana this week, just in time for the resumption of talks between Cuba and the United States. In public statements praising the Cuban government, Ri praised Cuba’s continued “fight against American imperialism” and vowed that North Korea would remain a loyal ally to Cuba.
