Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío denounced that the United States government is preparing a ministerial meeting with representatives from some 60 countries to discuss the supposed “danger” posed by what President Donald Trump has called the “resurgence of transnational far-left terrorism.”
According to Fernández de Cossío, who cites a report published by The Washington Post, it is “curious that the verb ‘resurgence’ is being used to refer to something no one has ever heard of.”
The diplomat believes that the initiative cannot be separated from the internal political context of the United States. In that regard, he noted that the US government will face an electoral contest in November that, for now, “seems unfavorable.”
He also stated that the impact of decades of neoliberal economic policies is becoming increasingly evident for American workers, expressed in the growing concentration of wealth and the decline in the incomes of the majority, despite the US being “the most lucrative economic power on the planet.”
In the deputy minister’s opinion, in these circumstances, “creating a smokescreen is always convenient,” especially if it also serves to intimidate, compromise, and ultimately subjugate sovereign governments in Latin America and other regions of the world.
Fernández de Cossío also warned that this strategy could be accompanied by “an intellectual and philosophical attempt to deny well-recognized historical realities and regularities of economic and social development that political science stopped questioning long ago.”
In his Facebook post, he argued that “the rise of Manichaeism is already evident in the public statements of the government and certain politicians,” which, he asserted, “remind historians of dark episodes in 1930s Europe.”
Regarding Latin America, the deputy minister pointed out that this narrative harks back to the anti-communist fanaticism promoted by the United States during the Cold War, which, he said, fueled a wave of repression in numerous countries of the region “in the service of big capital,” a repression that lasted almost until the end of the 20th century and resulted in “tens or hundreds of thousands of murders and disappearances.”
IMAGE CREDIT: Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Deputy Foreign Minister of Cuba / Cubadebate
[ SOURCE: www.cubainformacion.tv ]
