Categorical rejection of unfounded allegations of interference in US elections

Towards the end of the month of July this year, some articles published by   the newspaper The Miami Herald and others of the McClatchy news publishing company, to which it belongs, started to launch a new slanderous campaign against Cuba. In order to prop up their allegations, they have made reference to the existence of anonymous intelligence, a common practice resorted to by the aforementioned media group and their editors when lies become the essence of their reports.

Such allegations claim that Cuba is making efforts to influence electoral campaigns in the US state of Florida.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejects, in the strongest possible terms, such allegations.  It likewise deplores the fact that the US government, its State Department and intelligence agencies have not disqualified the direct reference to alleged government agencies  whose authority seem to support those slanderous articles.

The US government cannot possibly refer to any evidence or sign whatsoever –because they don’t exist- indicating that Cuba has interfered or intended to interfere in its electoral processes; or that Cuba is in favor of any particular politician in the state of Florida or any other state of that country.  Any reference in this regard is absolutely mendacious.

If these were not absolutely unfounded allegations about such a serious matter, they would otherwise cause surprise, because they could be construed as if the US government had made a 180 degree shift and, for the first time in more than a century, had considered any interference in the internal affairs of other countries as something inappropriate.  However, none of those articles clearly states whether that government intends to abandon such illegitimate and unacceptable practice, which has been part of the US foreign policy for so long.