Cuba will translate and publish more than 2,000 U.S. diplomatic WikiLeaks cables that pertain to Cuba in a bid to highlight U.S. "imperialist" policy, the official Cubadebate website said Thursday.
A "Cablegates" page reached through a portal on cubadebate.cu includes Spanish translations of classified cables disclosed by WikiLeaks, especially those sent by the U.S. Interests Section in Havana to the U.S. State Department.
Of the 2,080 cables leaked by the self-described whistleblower website in which Cuba is mentioned, 507 were sent by the interest section, and to date only 62 have been made public. Cubadebate will publish all the cables over time, it said, and on Thursday opened the series with seven U.S. Interests Section messages it said "prove the links between the U.S. government and (Cuba's) so-called internal dissidence."
They also show how the United States favors Cuba's "counter-revolutionary bloggers in its attempts to organize networks of young people to subvert the Cuban revolution," Cubadebate added.
In some of the Wikileaks cables appearing Thursday, U.S Interests Section mission chief Jonathan Farrar apparently describes Cuba's opposition leadership as aging, divided, concerned with making money and disconnected from Cuba's every-day reality.
Cuban President Raul Castro last week said the treasure trove of some 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables being disclosed by WikiLeaks shows that Washington still acts as the "world's policeman" despite U.S. President Barack Obama's "friendly rhetoric."
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