‘Cuba Never Threatened the US’, Says Former Colonel of US Marine Corps

HAVANA, Cuba. “Cuba has never threatened the United States,” said a former colonel of the US Marine Corps who participated in an academic conference on the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution that concluded this weekend in Kingston, Canada.

Col. (R) John McKay stressed that the arguments used by Washington over the last 50 years, which present Cuba as a threat to the United States, are unfounded.

“No matter how hard I try, I have never found a single piece of evidence showing that Cuba ever posed a terrorist threat to the United States,” McKay told Prensa Latina news agency.

McKay, who participated in one of the panels of the academic conference at the University of Queens, served as a commander of the US Marine Corps at the Guantanamo Naval Base during his active military life.

Hal Keplak, from the History Department of the Royal Military College of Canada, also participated in this panel dedicated to the topic of Cuba’s defense.

In Keplak’s opinion, in Cuba, unlike other countries, there is no division between the civil state and the army as all the people are prepared to face an eventual foreign aggression.

The academic conference, attended by more than 200 experts from 14 countries, was held from May 7 to 9, organized by Queen’s University and in coordination with the universities of Havana in Cuba and Chapel Hills in North Carolina, USA.

(Cuba nunca amenazó a EE.UU., afirma ex coronel de marines)