Authors of vandalism against Marti's busts confess
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The money came from the U.S. government, surveillance cameras caught the authors as they went to carry out their misdeeds, and the facts were clarified.
A special report on the Cuban television news on Tuesday offered detailed information on the acts of vandalism against 11 busts of the Cuban national hero, José Martí, and three billboards in the early morning of January 1 in Havana.
The material authors, Panter Rodríguez Baró, 44, and Yoel Prieto Tamayo, 29, citizens with criminal records, were arrested in the Cuban capital.
In their depositions to the authorities, collected by the report, they confessed to being responsible for the events, how they carried them out and who paid them from the United States to carry out the actions.
The events were part of a campaign orchestrated in the United States to create an image of the existence of an "opposition" to the Cuban Government, a group which presumably acted clandestinely, hence the name "Clandestinos."
The effort sought to foster an atmosphere of insecurity in the country.
Rodriguez and Prieto identified Miami-based counter-revolutionary activist Ana Olema Hernandez as the person who contacted them and sent them the money to carry out the acts vandalism.
