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The newspaper Granma, the official organ of the Communist Party of Cuba, published an editorial on Friday titled "There Will Be No Forgiveness or Forgetting", in which it warns that Cuba will not forgive or forget those who promote a military invasion against the island.
The article directly names Cuban-American officials from the Trump administration as the main instigators of an armed conflict, including Congress members Mario Díaz-Balart, Carlos Giménez, and María Elvira Salazar, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and former official Mauricio Claver-Carone.
"They are the main promoters of the war, the ones who lie and fabricate to justify and unleash a military conflict with incalculable consequences," the editorial states.
The text accuses that group of fabricating excuses to convince President Donald Trump, the Pentagon, and public opinion that Cuba poses a threat to the United States, and holds them responsible for any deaths that may result from a potential attack, including those of civilians, women, children, and the elderly.
The editorial also refers to the attack on January 3, 2026, in Venezuela, during which 32 Cuban military and agents lost their lives while guarding Nicolás Maduro, and rhetorically questions the "degree of responsibility" of those who promote the war for these deaths.
The remains of those military personnel were repatriated to Havana on January 15 with an official ceremony by the Communist Party.
The editorial is set against a backdrop of unprecedented rhetorical and military escalation. Trump has made multiple public threats against Cuba in recent weeks: on March 16 he declared, "I believe I will have the honor of taking Cuba"; on March 27 he said in Miami Beach, "Cuba is next, but pretend I didn't say that"; and on May 5 he threatened again to deploy the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier off the Cuban coast until the regime surrenders.
On May 2, Trump signed an executive order declaring Cuba an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to the national security of the United States, to which Díaz-Canel responded by stating that "no aggressor will subdue Cuba".
Rubio, for his part, appeared in front of a map of Cuba during a key meeting at the Southern Command headquarters in Doral, Florida, under the motto "Peace through Strength!" and stated to Fox News in April that he hopes "Cuba will fall soon."
This week, the United States deployed additional personnel to Southern Command amid escalating tensions, while Washington keeps all options on the table without ruling out military action.
The Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez warned this Friday that an attack on Cuba would result in a "bath of blood", aligning with the tone of the Granma editorial, which concludes: "The statistics of the silent genocide of the blockade and the economic war against Cuba will never capture all the human damage caused by a collective punishment that now threatens to turn into a massive bath of blood."
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