Havana, July 1 (Prensa Latina) Cuba today rejected the Presidential Memorandum on National Security issued by the United States government, which, by reissuing a similar one from 2017, tightens the economic siege and causes greater hardships for its people.
A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex) specifies that the anti-Cuban document released by the U.S. government on June 30, 2025, reissues and amends a similar one issued on June 16, 2017, at the start of Donald Trump’s first term.
Cuba categorically denounces and rejects both versions of the infamous document, the statement said, warning of U.S. intentions to take over the country and dictate its destiny, in accordance with the provisions of the Helms-Burton Act of 1996.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs asserts that since 2017, the U.S. government has begun implementing measures to further strengthen the economic blockade, taking it to a qualitatively more damaging level.
The note points out that these measures have been maintained over the past eight years and explain the current shortcomings and challenges facing the Cuban economy in its recovery, growth, and development.
He adds that the original 2017 Memorandum was the political platform that promoted, among other measures, the near-absolute ban on U.S. travel to Cuba; it led to the persecution of fuel supplies and the obstruction of remittances.
That memorandum also justified measures against third-country governments for relying on Cuban medical services to serve their respective populations, the Foreign Ministry asserts.
It also led to pressure on commercial and financial entities around the world to prevent their relations with Cuba, which included lawsuits in U.S. courts against the island’s investors. It also ordered the slanderous inclusion of the island on the list of alleged state sponsors of terrorism.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement asserts that “U.S. leaders and politicians have the audacity to declare that they are acting in this way for the good of the Cuban people,” using terms “such as democracy, human rights, and religious freedom” that “are concepts incompatible with the historically abusive and transgressive conduct of the U.S. government.”
The Foreign Ministry concluded by stating that the U.S. government “doesn’t care that Cuba is a peaceful, stable, supportive country with friendly relations with virtually the entire world. The policy it pursues responds to the narrow interests of a corrupt, anti-Cuban clique that has made aggression against its neighbor a way of life and a very lucrative business.”
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