Cuba Thwarts Second Terrorist Plot in Less Than a Year
Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior claims the U.S. government bankrolled and organized a terrorist plot, an allegation the U.S. will likely deny
On Sunday, Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior (MININT) released a statement through its state-run media arm, Granma, announcing it stopped a terrorist plot — the second in less than a year. Ardenys García Álvarez, a Cuban citizen who emigrated to the United States in 2014, was arrested for illegally entering Cuba and allegedly smuggling firearms and ammunition to other suspects on the island to commit acts of terrorism against the country.
MININT suggests that the latest attempted terrorist plot is part of a larger action connected to arrests made on the island in December when a man who rode a modified JetSki from the Florida Keys transported weapons and ammunition to Cuba. In the release, the agency also accused the U.S. government of funding and helping organize an attack.
“The actions of the forces of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) prevented the implementation of the plans designed, directed and financed, once again, from the United States and generated an investigative process focused on the facts and the people involved,” reads the report posted on Cuban state…
