Raúl Castro said he had ordered a state of preparedness for the regular army and the mobilization of thousands of reservists and militia members, who are going through military exercises. “If we were looking only at the internal situation, we would not need to mobilize” anyone, he said. The maneuvers are organized in response to recent threats and attacks from Washington that “have not gone beyond rhetoric.” The troops “will be rotated, in approximately equal groups, as they accomplish their objectives,” he said. “[They] will be given adequate advance notice of when they will be called up and how long they will stay in these units guarding the Homeland.”

Matilde Zimmermann
Havana, Cuba
 
 
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