Cuba delivered yesterday to the Secretary General of the United Nations an update of the National List of persons and entities that have been subjected to criminal investigations and are wanted by Cuban authorities for involvement in the promotion, planning, organization, financing, support or commission of acts of terrorism carried out in the national territory or other countries.
This was announced at a press conference by Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs (Minrex); Colonel Víctor Álvarez Valle, from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of the Interior (Minint); Edward Roberts Campbell, Chief Prosecutor of the Directorate for Confronting Corruption and Illegalities of the Attorney General's Office (FGR); and Alexis Batista Segrera, Director of International Relations of the Ministry of Justice (Minjus).
The new list, published in Resolution No. 13 (2025) and the Official Gazette of the Republic of Cuba, includes 62 persons born in Cuba, but not residents, and 20 terrorist entities, under Resolution 1373 (2001) of the UN Security Council, International Law and the domestic legal system, the colonel reported. Four deceased persons have been removed from the list, and five new individuals and one organization have been added.
He added that the investigations involve people based mostly in the U.S., a situation that the island has repeatedly denounced to the U.S. authorities, without receiving a response. Cuba alleges that these represent a threat to the security of both countries.
Álvarez Valle argued that, in addition, a new variant was identified: cyberterrorism, with the use of social networks to incite violence and create destabilization.
Due to the seriousness of the facts -said the prosecutor-, regardless of the cooperation mechanisms that exist and the use of international legal cooperation, the country can also apply other measures that are implemented in some of the processes, such as using the process in absentia, following what is established in the Criminal Code. In other words, some people have sponsored terrorist acts against Cuba, and they can be tried in absentia.
"It is paradoxical and cynical that the United States Government designates Cuba as a State sponsor of terrorism, in a unilateral list and without any mandate from international organizations. Any astute and impartial observer can conclude which is the government that, actually, encourages, supports, and tolerates terrorism, and which is the country that confronts and fights it, while it has been a victim of this scourge for more than six decades," the Cuban Deputy Minister pointed out.
Vidal Ferreiro stressed that, with the presentation of the list to the United Nations, Cuba, as a State party to the 19 international conventions on the matter, strictly complies with and honors the obligations emanating from the relevant resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, related to the fight against terrorism.
Meanwhile, he assured that, in spite of the inaction of the US authorities due to obvious political considerations, Cuba has made cooperation in the fight against this scourge feasible through the Dialogue mechanism and the Memorandum of Understanding between both countries in the area of law enforcement and compliance with the law. (Granma)