Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez dismissed the claims by US Vice President Mike Pence that Cuban military allegedly trained and supported Venezuelan secret police in a bid to silence the country’s opposition, calling these allegations “gross lies” and a propaganda campaign.
“I strongly reject repeated and false accusations by vice president Pence and other #US officials of Cuban military ‘training,’ ‘controlling’ or ‘intimidating’ in #Venezuela. These are gross lies, part of the vicious McCarthyist propaganda campaign launched by #US,” Rodriguez wrote on Twitter on Friday.
The foreign minister added that Havana and Caracas enjoyed relations based on mutual respect and solidarity without interfering in each others’ internal affairs.