Cuba is all flustered over their suspicions that the United States is using undergoing an “escalation of provocative actions.” Like building an army of anti-Communist robots. With laser beams:

Among the activities denounced by the foreign ministry are:

Holding a Father’s Day event in the residence of the top US envoy

Holding meetings with “counter-revolutionary ringleaders” in the homes of US diplomatic officials

Encouraging public protests in the streets and at symbolic sites such as Revolution Square

Giving opponents internet access inside the US mission

Providing dissidents with mobile phones, computers, money and “counter-revolutionary propaganda”

Yes, well, we understand the concept of access to mobile phones and computers is very new and different. Dissidents and the United States government both responded, probably unsurprisingly, with a “Huh?”

BBC Mundo’s correspondent in Havana Fernando Ravsberg says the timing of the ministry’s statement is strange given that dissident actions are all but paralysed on the island.

Almost the only protests are by the Ladies in White, whose husbands were among 75 people imprisoned during a 2003 crackdown on political opposition.

Fifty-five are believed to still to be behind bars.

The Havana government denies there are any political prisoners in Cuba, accusing them of being mercenaries in the pay of the US.

That’s precisely what a dissident robot would say, thought, isn’t it?

Cuba denounces US ‘provocations’ [BBC]