The Cuban government believes the purpose of the American mission in Cuba is to promote “peaceful bilateral relations” but instead, it and “particularly its chargé d’affaires have focused in recent months on the failed purpose of recruiting mercenaries, promoting division and confusion among our people, identifying the areas of the economy against which to direct coercive measures, and trying to slander and discredit the work of the Cuban government and the Revolution.” The statement continued that “it was open instigation to violence.”