The Cuban government claimed last Wednesday that they captured four terrorists plotting an attack against their country.

This would make the first violent plot reported in more than a decade. The four men were arrested in Cuba. The interior ministry of Cuba is adamant that the threat against the country is real. This is not the first time that a terrorist attack has affected the country, but some people are skeptical about the entire affair.

The four men who were arrested by the Cuban Interior ministry reportedly came from Miami. The Interior ministry released a statement that the Miami residents were Raibel Pacheco Santos, Obdulio Rodríguez González, Félix Monzón álvarez and José Ortega Amador and that they were arrested on April 26, the Miami Herald reported.

The four detained men reportedly admitted that they planned to attack military installations with the objective of promoting violent activities. The statement also added that three of the men traveled to Cuba in 2013 to study and plan their attack.

One Miami radio host Hector Fabian stated that Rodriguez and Monzón, allegedly attended some meetings of exile militants in Miami less than 10 years ago, but they were not well known within the community, and they were not well known members of any particular anti-Castro organization.

The sudden terrorist plot comes one week after the U.S. released a list of countries that support international terrorism. The U.S. State Department and the FBI in Miami have not responded and had no comment on the Cuban announcement.

Since 1976 there have been suspected terrorists attacks through the years have started since 1976.

The Cuban government claimed that the current detained men have ties with Luis Posada Carriles, who is a supposed Cuban exile and an alleged CIA operative accused of blowing up a Cuban commercial airliner that killed 73 people, CNN reported.

In 1997, a series of hotel bombings hit the capital, one of which had killed an Italian man. Some Salvadoran and Guatemalan nationals were arrested; it was determined that Posada Carriles and other exiles were behind the attacks.

In 2001, three Cuban-Americans were detained and possibly arrested on the island for arriving on the shores with guns and ammunition, according to Cuban authorities, the Huffington Post reported.

A Cuban nongovernmental human rights monitor on the island, Elizardo Sanchez, stated that he had heard nothing about the detained exiles, even though his organization has regular communication with people in Cuban prisons.

Pepe Hernandez, a longtime Cuban exile activist, who is in charge of the Cuban American National Foundation in Miami, stated that he did not recognize any of the names of the detained men.

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