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Cuba announces nationwide war games
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CUBA yesterday announced the launch of five days of nationwide military exercises to prepare troops to confront what the government calls “a range of enemy actions.”
The government did not link the exercises to Donald Trump’s US presidential victory but the announcement of maneuvers and tactical exercises came nearly simultaneously with Trump’s surprise win.
It is the seventh time Cuba has held what it calls the Bastion Strategic Exercise, often in response to points of high tension with the United States.
The first exercise was launched in 1980 after the election of Ronald Reagan as US president.
Trump has promised to reverse President Barack Obama’s reestablishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba and the ongoing normalization of ties between the two countries.
An announcement by the Revolutionary Armed Forces in red ink across the top of the front page of Cuba’s main newspaper said the army, Interior Ministry and other forces would be conducting maneuvers and different types of tactical exercises on November 16-20.
It warned citizens the exercises would include “movements of troops and war material, overflights and explosions in the cases where they’re required.”
News of Trump’s victory hit hard among ordinary people and experts in US relations with Cuba, which has spent the last two years negotiating normalization after more than 50 years of Cold War hostility.
Normalization has set off a tourism boom and visits by hundreds of executives from the US and other nations interested in doing business in Cuba.
Trump has promised to reverse Obama’s opening unless President Raul Castro agrees to more political freedom on the island.
Many Cubans said they feared that a Trump win would mean losing the few improvements they had seen in their lives thanks to the tourism boom.
“The little we’ve advanced, if he reverses it, it hurts us,” taxi driver Oriel Iglesias Garcia said. “You know tourism will go down. If Donald Trump wins and turns everything back it’s really bad for us.”
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