The Official Gazette of the Republic of Cuba published yesterday Resolution 19/2023 of the Ministry of the Interior, referring to the National List of persons and entities that have been subjected to criminal investigations and are wanted by Cuban authorities, based on their involvement in the promotion, planning, organization, financing, support or commission of acts carried out in the national territory or in other countries.
The provision includes perpetrators of terrorist acts against Cuba from 1999 to the present. The open legal cases correspond to aggressions against hotels and other tourist centers, infiltration along the coasts to carry out violent actions, attacks against the President of the Republic and other public officials, and the promotion of military maneuvers against the largest of the Antilles.
It also refers to those who incite, organize and finance actions that affect the social order in Cuba.
Some of these terrorists are Santiago Álvarez Fernández Magriñá, Ramón Saúl Sánchez Rizo, Ana Olema Hernández, William Cabrera González, Michel Naranjo Riverón and Eduardo Arias León. In addition, Yamila Betancourt García, Alexander Otaola Casal, Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat, Eliecer Ávila, Liudmila Santiesteban Cruz, Manuel Milanés Pizonero, Alain Lambert Sánchez (Cuban Paparazzi) and Jorge Ramón Batista Calero (Ultrack).
Alexander Alazo Baró, who attacked the Cuban Embassy in the US with a firearm, is included.
The legal grounds are in Resolution 1373 of the UN Security Council, in the Cuban Penal Code, in Decree-Law 317 of the Council of State, and in Resolution 16 of the Minister of the Interior.
Also on the list are Yamila Betancourt García, Alexander Otaola Casal, Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat, Eliecer Ávila, Liudmila Santiesteban Cruz, Manuel Milanés Pizonero, Alain Lambert Sánchez (Cuban Paparazzi) and Jorge Ramón Batista Calero (Ultrack). It highlights their participation in sabotage and other punishable actions, through the recruitment of people in the digital space.
The appearance in the document of Alexander Alazo Baró, subject of Investigative File 27/2020, initiated for the attack with a firearm to the Cuban embassy in the United States, stands out.
The legal basis for the measure is found in Resolution 1373 of the United Nations Security Council, regarding the prevention and fight against terrorism and its financing; the Cuban Penal Code; as well as Decree-Law 317 of the Council of State and Resolution 16 of the Minister of the Interior, for the detection and fight against money laundering, the financing of terrorism, the proliferation of weapons and the movement of illicit capital.
Source: Granma.cu