By Francisco Acevedo
HAVANA TIMES – Last week, the Cuban National Television News made a big deal about the dismantling of an alleged plan to overthrow the government of our beloved Miguel Diaz-Canel, involving a citizen who traveled on a Jet Ski from the United States to recruit anyone willing to join destabilizing actions.
No one should overlook that this “revelation” happened on the eve of the third anniversary of the July 11, 2021 protests and although he was arrested in November 2023 in the northern area of Matanzas province, it was only these days that his supposed collaborators were detained, without names or new information provided.
Ardenys García, the name of the new freedom champion, was found with a .45 caliber pistol and ammunition.
Garcia, 40, and originally from Cienfuegos, had been sanctioned for speculation and theft with force and left the island in 2014, but was also wanted in the United States for human trafficking.
He was recruited through social networks because his situation was evidently desperate and he clung to a burning nail, serving as a guinea pig, a smokescreen to try to sell an alleged grand plan to invade Cuba. At the time, we talked about the absurdity of this idea, but since Humberto Lopez and his people on TV have now revisited it, we must do so again.
As always, in Havana, it is said that everything was financed by the US government, when the citizen himself said that they sent him a link to buy uniforms and weapons, nothing to do with the established methodology if it were something even remotely serious. The New Cuban Nation in Arms, as the “organization” he belonged to is called, had no more than 10 people, but it serves as a smokescreen for everything else.
Coincidentally, the investigative process concluded in time to be disclosed on July 10th, but the most interesting part is that the group denied any connection with the current prisoner.
“We have not conducted any operations in