Today September 11 marks the 22nd anniversary of a local event that became global in an instant, when three planes piloted by terrorists of the Al Qaeda network struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the United States. More than 3,000 lives were lost in the most serious act of terrorism in the history of the United States.
Family members are still not recovering from the loss and in some cases have not been able to receive the physical remains of their loved ones.
According to the official version of events, it was said at the time that: a small number of foreigners of Arab origin trained in the United States, outwitted the country’s intelligence for months, in a single day bypassed the security controls of several airports and were able to fly highly complex technical aircraft, crashing them on their targets with millimetric accuracy.
This is still an open wound in the American society, which may never be closed, among other things due to the lack of a credible and definitive explanation.
September 11 is a date that has a very painful connotation for Cubans, because on a day like this, but in 1980 and in New York City itself, the diplomat Felix Garcia Rodriguez was assassinated by the counterrevolutionary organization Omega 7.
In Cuba and Latin America, the September 11, 1973 assassination of Salvador Allende and the coup d’état against a socialist government elected by the people are also well remembered.
In both events, U.S. federal agencies were involved and responsible, despite the fact that one took place in the national territory and the other abroad, and neither of them was recognized as terrorist acts.
We cannot forget that since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959, the United States has maintained an aggressive policy towards Cuba characterized by terrorism in its various forms.
A policy that encouraged the hijacking and piracy of aircraft, a policy of State terrorism that tolerated from U.S. territory between 1959 and 1960 more than 50 bombings with explosives and live phosphorus against Cuban sugar mills and populated urban areas, It also organized the most treacherous crime of those early years, at the hands of the CIA, such as the blowing up of the ship La Coubre in the Port of Havana in March 1960, where more than one hundred Cuban workers lost their lives, among them some of French nationality.
A policy that financed and organized a mercenary invasion of Bay of Pigs in 1961, which sowed terror and death, before being totally defeated and a far-reaching subversive operation called Mongoose between 1962 and 1963, which also caused many innocent deaths, promoted thousands of sabotages and elaborated pretexts to try to justify once again a US military invasion against Cuba.
A terrorist State policy that unleashed an economic war and a criminal blockade to starve the Cuban people, and which is still being applied with greater force by the U.S. in the face of the rejection of the entire international community. A biological war that took the lives of children and the elderly and has caused incalculable material damage to our economy.
All this genocidal policy against a small country has been supported by a radio and television war from U.S. territory that also incites sabotage, murder and betrayal of the homeland.
The U.S. government has continued the arbitrary practice of placing Cuba on the list of states that supposedly sponsor international terrorism, but the United States does not have the moral authority to make such lists, nor is there a single reason to include Cuba in any of them.
