In a statement published on its website, the Foreign Ministry explained that articles in The Miami Herald and others from the McClatchy press organization, to which the newspaper belongs, began a new slanderous campaign against Cuba in late July.

The text states that these media hide behind alleged anonymous intelligence sources, a common practice that the journalistic organization and its editors are accustomed to when lies are the basis of the report.

“The accusation is that Cuba is carrying out efforts to influence the local electoral campaigns in the state of Florida in the United States,” the MINREX emphasized.

The Foreign Ministry also noted that the US Government, its State Department and its intelligence agencies have not disqualified the direct reference to alleged government agencies on whose authority these slanderous articles seem to rest.

“The US Government cannot cite any evidence or indication, because it does not exist, that Cuba has interfered or has intended to interfere in its electoral processes, or that it is favoring any politician from the state of Florida or any other state in that country,” the statement stressed.

The ministry also indicated that “if it were not a completely unfounded complaint on such a serious issue, the statement would be surprising, as it could be interpreted that the US Government has made a 180-degree turn and for the first time in more than a century considers it inappropriate to interfere in the electoral processes of other countries.”

The MINREX pointed out that it is not clear in any of the articles “whether this government intends to abandon a practice as illegitimate as it is unacceptable that has accompanied US foreign policy for so long.”

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