Right-wing bomb in Cuba

August 20, 1997
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Right-wing bomb in Cuba

A small device exploded on August 4 in the lobby of the Melia-Cohiba Hotel in Havana, causing no injuries and only slight damage.

It was the fourth explosion since April in a Havana hotel and the second in the Melia-Cohiba, one of the most luxurious and well-guarded hotels of the capital.

A communiqué from Cuba's Interior Ministry, released on August 5, links the August 4 attack to the two explosions that occurred on July 12 at the Nacional and Capri hotels.

At a press conference during the week of July 28, National Assembly president Ricardo Alarcon reiterated that those bombings "were conceived and planned from outside the country" with the objective of damaging Cuban tourism, the island's primary source of hard currency.

A group calling itself Comandos Mambises sent a letter to the right-wing Spanish-language Miami newspaper Diario Las Americas claiming responsibility for an explosion which took place on August 5 at the offices of the Cuban travel agency Havanatur in Nassau, Bahamas.

[From Weekly News Update on the Americas.]

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