Cuba's government said Wednesday that a decision to ban an opposition demonstration won't hurt its image and accused the United States and anti-Castro groups in Florida of instigating next week's planned.
“Reality is what determines image,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez told The Associated Press when asked about the protest that has been organized and discussed widely on social media.
The protest is being planned by Facebook's Archipielago initiative. Organizers asked for authorization to hold the march but were denied and are now urging people to take to the streets anyway. “In no way will we allow the permanent aggression of the United States ... to generate conditions of internal subversion ... to spoil the party,” Rodriguez told the diplomats.
No U.S. diplomats attended the meeting. The U.S. Embassy has been open since 2015, but operations were sharply reduced during the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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