At least one Molotov cocktail has been thrown at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, but there was no significant damage and no one was injured
At least one Molotov cocktail was thrown at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, but there was no significant damage and no one was injured. U.S. law enforcement officials were investigating.
Secret Service officers were called around 8 p.m. Sunday to respond to the attack on a busy street in the Adams-Morgan section of the city. Embassy officials reported that someone had thrown a “possible incendiary device” at the building, Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said on Monday.Advertisement
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on X, formerly called Twitter, that the Cuban Embassy “was the target of a terrorist attack by an individual who threw 2 Molotov cocktails.” He said no one was injured. A spokesman for the Cuban Embassy did not immediately respond to a request for additional information on Monday.with an AK-47 at the Cuban Embassy, spraying the front of the building with nearly three dozen rounds.
The shooting left bullet holes in the glass around the embassy’s door, and bullets pierced the bronze statue of Jose Marti, the Cuban writer and national hero, as well as the columns and facade of the building. Cuba built the embassy in 1917. It closed in January 1961 as Cold War tensions between the two countries escalated, and it reopened as an “interests section” in 1977. In July 2015, it became an embassy once again as the two countries restored relations under President Barack Obama and President Raul Castro.
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