July 15, 2026.
Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez
The Cuban government rejected the meeting convened by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to discuss “far-left terrorism.” Havana maintains that the meeting aims to justify actions against progressive organizations and restore mechanisms of political persecution.
The Cuban government denounced on Monday that the ministerial meeting convened by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to address “transnational far-left terrorism” will be based on false arguments with the aim of justifying actions against progressive forces, left-wing organizations, and social movements.
On social media platform X, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez stated that the meeting “will seek to reinstate political persecution and repression against those who denounce, dissent from, and fight against the neoliberal, imperialist, fascist, and far-right measures promoted by the U.S. government.”
The Cuban foreign minister added that “the means used to achieve this, the victims, or the double standards do not matter. All it takes is a new lie—from those with a track record of creating them—and a well-oiled propaganda machine that they already control.”
Previously, Rodríguez described the gathering as a “McCarthyist ministerial meeting” and maintained that it will attempt to substantiate the existence of alleged threats driven by progressive forces, left-wing organizations, social movements, and those who fight against “oppression, exploitation, racism, war, intervention, and imperialist brutality.”
He also argued that the initiative constitutes “a step toward restoring intimidation and legitimizing policies such as the nefarious Plan Condor,” referring to the repressive coordination mechanism implemented by several Latin American dictatorships since 1975 with U.S. support.
The previous week, Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Fernández de Cossío also criticized the call for the meeting, describing it as a “smokescreen” in light of the domestic political situation facing Republicans ahead of the U.S. congressional elections scheduled for November.
According to a report in the U.S. newspaper The Washington Post, Marco Rubio called a meeting for July 15 with representatives from more than 60 countries to analyze what President Donald Trump’s administration calls the “resurgence of far-left transnational terrorism.”