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America Denies Cuba Invasion Rumors

Seeking to deny rhetorical ammunition to the authoritarian Castro brothers in Cuba and their allies in Venezuela`s Hugo Chavez, Washington reiterated over the weekend that America has no plans to destabilize or invade Cuba following the death of Fidel Castro, after reports surfaced that the brother of dictator Fidel Castro (in power since 1959), acting president Raul Castro, announced the mobilization of country`s military to fight off any invasion.

"The United States has no plans to invade Cuba," said Eric Watnik, a State Department spokesman. In his first public statement, Raul Castro said he had called up tens of thousands of reservists and Cuban militia members from the countryside to be ready to defend against a possible U.S. invasion threat. However, Tom Shannon, another top diplomat at State responsible for the Cuba region, expressed the same sentiments as Watnik following the news some weeks ago that Fidel Castro had for the first time in his rule temporarily transferred power to his brother.

Speaking of the United States, Raul Castro said "At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, they frustrated the independence of Cuba and imposed their administrators on us. Now they have also designed one for the supposed `transition.` One Caleb McCarry recently stated that the United States does not accept the continuity of the Cuban Revolution, although he didn`t say how they are thinking of averting that."