ACTIVISTS and diplomats have denounced a “terrorist” attack on the Cuban embassy in Washington in which Molotov cocktails were thrown at the building.

The embassy was previously attacked in April 2020, when a terrorist fired an assault rifle at the premises. The US authorities have still failed to convict the perpetrator.

This time, the building was targeted with two Molotov cocktails. There are no reports of anyone being detained over the attack. 

Embassy officials said that there had been no harm done to personnel, but Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said: “Anti-Cuban groups resort to terrorism because they feel impunity, something that Cuba has repeatedly warned US authorities about.”

Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said that his country condemned “this new terrorist attack against the sovereign integrity of Cuba and we stand in solidarity with its people and authorities.”

National Network on Cuba activist Calla Walsh noted that the “terrorist attack against the Cuban embassy with Molotov cocktails is not the first, but one of 581 violent attacks against Cuban diplomatic missions. 

“The embassy was shot up by a fascist in 2020 and the US still hasn’t convicted him or called it an act of terrorism.”

Manolo de los Santos, co-executive director of the People’s Forum in New York said: “We demand an investigation into this crime. The US government should stop protecting terrorists.”

The Communist Party’s Washington branch also denounced the attack, as did Party for Socialism and Liberation presidential candidate Claudia De La Cruz, who said that it was a “result of the hatred and violence that the US government condones.”

In Britain, Cuba Solidarity Campaign director Rob Miller said: “This is the logical end game of the violent far-right Cuban-American mafia that have driven the cold-war, anachronistic, aggressive US policies against the island for over 60 years.”

The attack came hours after Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel had spoken at a People’s Forum rally in New York.

Mr Diaz-Canel said: “Pessimism is not the nature of revolutionaries. That is not an option for those of us who believe a better world is possible. It is not an option for those of us who have the belief that it is worth it to fight for that better world.” 

Tricontinental Centre for Social Research director Vijay Prashad said: “The centre of gravity of the world is moving away from Washington DC — it’s moving eastward.”