14ymedio, Madrid, 29 December 2023 — The Cuban regime is a “threat” to security not only for citizens within the Island but for all democracies. This warning comes from six former dissident officers of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior in a letter that they made public this Friday through the organization Cuba Archive on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Revolution.
Signed by Orlando Brito, José Cohen, Rafael del Pino, Enrique García, Alcibíades Hidalgo and Máximo Omar Ruiz, former senior commanders of the Security Forces, who defected and went into exile between 1987 and 2011, the missive warns that the Cuban intelligence services have a large number of agents spread all over the planet “whose alleged loyalties do not arouse suspicion” and that they aim to “serve the interests of the Cuban dictatorship.”
“They operate within their governments, parliaments, media, universities, churches, cultural institutions, companies and other sectors of society, even at the highest levels,” they say, based on the fact that, as former officers of the Armed Forces, the Ministry of the Interior, the Government and the Communist Party of Cuba, they know “from the inside their objectives and methodologies.”
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