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The Cuban-American congressman Carlos Giménez accused the Cuban regime of sheltering some of the most dangerous criminals in the world.
"The regime in Cuba harbors some of the most dangerous criminals in the world, convicted terrorists, and fugitives from U.S. justice," he wrote on X.
“We can no longer tolerate the serious compromise to the security of the United States just 90 miles from our shores,” he added.
Giménez's statements come after U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, commemorated the anniversary of the terrorist attack carried out on January 24, 1975, at the Fraunces tavern in New York, where four people died and around fifty were injured.
Rubio denounced that the Cuban regime continues to protect the intellectual author of the attack, the Puerto Rican extremist William “Guillermo” Morales.
"The illegitimate Cuban regime continues to harbor William Morales, the architect of this heinous crime," Rubio wrote on X (formerly Twitter). "We honor the memory of the deceased and acknowledge the enduring pain of the victims. The United States will not relent in its pursuit of justice," added the head of U.S. diplomacy.
Morales was the main explosives manufacturer for the separatist group Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), responsible for over 130 attacks on U.S. soil during the 1970s and 1980s.
Convicted of terrorism and prison escape, he fled to Mexico in 1979 and, after being detained, managed to reach Cuba, where he has been living under official protection for more than four decades. Washington has repeatedly demanded his extradition but has received no response from Havana.
The case of Morales is just one among more than 70 American fugitives currently residing in Cuba, many of whom are accused of murder, kidnapping, drug trafficking, or terrorism.
Among them was Joanne Chesimard, known as Assata Shakur, a former member of the Black Panthers, who murdered police officer Werner Foerster in New Jersey in 1973 and died in Havana in 2025 without having faced justice.
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