Cuba “is not a threat“ to the US, as Washington claims, but a “barrier“ against the entry of drugs into the country, a high-ranking official of the Cuban Interior Ministry said today, quoted by Agence France-Presse, BTA reports.
”Cuba does not pose a threat to the United States”, said Colonel Juan Carlos Poy, military representative and head of the anti-drugs directorate in the Cuban Interior Ministry (Minint), at a press conference. On the contrary, the island is a “barrier in the sea” against drugs that are circulating between South America and the United States, he added.
Washington is imposing an energy blockade on Cuba, citing the “exceptional threat” to US national security posed by the island, located just 150 km off the coast of the US state of Florida.