Washington is trying to justify spending more taxpayer money on aggressive foreign policy, Havana has claimed
The US falsely accuses other countries of spying while itself engaging in widespread espionage, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Eduardo Rodriguez Parrilla has claimed.
Rodriguez made the comments on Thursday, the same day as the former US ambassador to Bolivia, Victor Manuel Rocha, admitted in a Florida court to spying for the Communist government in Havana.
“The US government, the one that spies and violates citizens’ privacy… the most, invents a foreign threat in data espionage,” the Cuban diplomat wrote on X (formerly Twitter), without directly mentioning Rocha.
“What comes next is more fund raising among [the US] taxpayers and new aggressive steps against third countries,” Rodriguez argued.
Rocha was arrested in Miami, Florida in December on suspicion of working for the Cuban intelligence services for over four decades.
The 73-year-old occupied various high-ranking positions in the US State Department from 1981, including serving as Washington’s ambassador in Bolivia between 2000 and 2002. After leaving the diplomatic service, he became an adviser to the head of the US Southern Command, whose remit covers Central and South America and the Caribbean.
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