Pompeo condemns Cuban accusations against top U.S. diplomat in Havana

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Pompeo condemns Cuban accusations against top U.S. diplomat in Havana

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday condemned accusations by Cuba’s government against Washington’s top diplomat in Havana, which he said were made to distract attention from its “abysmal treatment of the Cuban people.”

Communist-run Cuba accused the U.S. embassy in Havana on Wednesday of having fomented the “counterrevolutionary” activity of leading dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer, whom it arrested nearly two months ago.

The U.S. embassy last week posted on Twitter a video of Charge d’Affaires Mara Tekach with Nelva Ismarays Ortega, partner of Ferrer, leader of Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), the country’s most active opposition organization. Together they pleaded for his release.

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