MONROE COUNTY, Fla. — After the Axios report about an alleged “attack-drone threat from Cuba,” Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay released a statement.
Ramsay said he was monitoring the situation.
“I have not been contacted by any government agency, and I don’t believe there is any reason to be concerned,” Ramsay said. “I am confident I will be notified if anything does change, and I will alert the public.”
The New York Times recently reported that the U.S. had increased surveillance flights over the island. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez also accused the U.S. of fabricating “a fraudulent case” for U.S. military intervention.
The Associated Press recently reported that the U.S. Justice Department was working on a plan to indict Raúl Castro for the 1996 fatal attacks on two Brothers to the Rescue planes at sea.
Also on Thursday, during a visit to Havana, CIA Director John Ratcliffe demanded that Cuba “no longer be a safe haven for adversaries.”
Cubans are dealing with a fuel shortage that has prompted power outages and a detrimental domino effect affecting healthcare, unemployment, education, and food supply after the U.S. military’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Amid the crisis, Díaz-Canel recently agreed to accept $100 million in direct humanitarian aid to Cubans from the U.S.
Trump has put both Venezuela and Cuba under pressure to make deals with the U.S., as he re-branded the “Monroe Doctrine” as the “Donroe Doctrine.”
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