To commemorate the two-year anniversary of right-wing protests in Cuba in July 2021, the House Foreign Affairs Committee sponsored a roundtable next to the Bay of Pigs museum in Miami, Florida, that affirmed U.S. calls for regime change in Cuba. McCaul’s claim about a Chinese spy base—thought to have been constructed near the town of Bejucal between March 2017 and February 2018—has also not been verified . At the roundtable, McCaul heaped praise on Ronald Reagan, who supported a genocidal butcher in Guatemala (Efraín Ríos Montt) and terrorist invasion in Nicaragua that was financed through illegal drug smuggling and other criminal means. At the July 10 roundtable, speaker after speaker played up the China threat from Cuba and denounced Cuba’s ties to Vladimir Putin. This was an example of the extreme right-wing viewpoint espoused at the roundtable designed to support hardline regime-change policies and U.S. military intervention.

Source: Washington Post July 20, 2023 13:02 UTC