HAVANA.- Cuba rejected an article published by Canadian broadcaster CBC News on the alleged presence of Cuban military in the Venezuelan army, which it described as tendentious and manipulative.

In a message sent to the editor of CBC News, the Cuban ambassador in Ottawa, Josefina Vidal, assured that such a statement is a scandalous slander, Prensa Latina reported today in an office dated in Ottawa.

I demand that the CBC news present proof, which evidently it does not have, since it does not appear in the whole article," the article states.

The diplomat recalls that more than 20,000 Cubans provide services in the South American nation, 94 percent of whom are health workers and the rest from other sectors such as education.

It also accuses CBC News of repeating the thesis of U.S. President Donald Trump, who accused Cuba of maintaining a private army in Venezuela, without providing any evidence.