The Cuban government dispatched an Interior Ministry (MININT) counter-terrorism team to the burned-down supertanker base at Matanzas, they revealed CyberCuba Sources of the Armed Body and the Structure of the Ruling Communist Party.
“We do not think we are faced with a possible act of terrorist sabotage, but rather with the need to retain the greatest number of tests for further investigation, in a scenario made even more complex by the size of the fire,” said a senior MININT officially settled. , who refused to be identified.
“We know that colleagues from the anti-terrorist group and other MININT specialists arrived in Matanzas in the first hours of the fire and, due to the dynamics of their activity and the prevailing climate, work from the first moment discreetly and not without difficulties.” This was confirmed by an official of the communist Party apparatus, which gave no information on the number of specialists expelled or their whereabouts.
A group of experts consulted by CyberCuba led the fire at the Super Tanker Base on the crisis to faulty investment policies and breaches of maintenance and technical forecasts.
So far, the Cuban government has only reported the presence of firefighters from Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Villa Clara, Sancti Spíritus, Mayabeque and Havana; and experts from Mexico and Venezuela; but it has refrained from dispatching specialized teams from the MININT and Chinese advisers to the damaged supertanker base.
The Interior Ministry reported on its institutional Twitter a visit by the Minister, Division General Lázaro Álvarez Casas and the presence of combatants and civilian workers, coordinated with the FAR, at the Super Tanker Base, but without referring to the anti-terrorist group.
Among the possible causes of the fire that has been gripping Cuba since August 5, the government has only reported the fall of a powerful man beam on Tank 52 of the Matanzas Supertanker Base; but he no longer referred to the subject in his daily parts or in his pronouncements.
The MININT anti-terrorist group not only coordinates Cuba from hostile acts and protects it from hostile acts, but also coordinates the armed organization’s specialized cooperation with foreign counter-institutions, including the United States; in accordance with bilateral agreements on this issue of particular importance in this area since the attacks of Al Qaeda against the Pentagon, the Twin Towers and US civilian aircraft in September 2001.
But one of the points of greatest bilateral tension is Cuba’s persistence in the ready by governments that are not sufficiently cooperating in the fight against terrorism, an inclusion that Havana flatly rejects, such as sanctions against the ministers of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, Alvaro Lopez Miera and the MININT, Lazaro Alvarez Casaswhich Washington holds responsible for the repression against Cubans.
In May, the US government re-added Cuba, along with Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Syria, to a list of countries that Washington said “are not fully cooperating” in their fight against terrorism.