Havana, January 30 (Prensa Latina) The Revolutionary Government today condemned the new escalation by the United States against Cuba, which through an executive order seeks to impose an absolute blockade on fuel supplies to the island.
In an official statement, the Cuban government described as “extreme” the measure announced on January 29, which declares a supposed national emergency to impose tariffs on countries that supply oil to Cuba.
The text noted that to justify this action, “an extensive list of lies and defamatory accusations is brandished,” including the “absurd assertion” that Cuba constitutes an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to U.S. national security.
He stressed that the Washington government “is aware that no one or very few can believe such mendacious arguments, but they don’t care,” and accused the US administration of showing “contempt for the truth, public opinion, and government ethics.”
The statement asserted that the executive order consolidates “a dangerous way of conducting U.S. foreign policy by force,” by claiming “the right to dictate to sovereign states which nations they can trade with.”
He stressed that this provision “constitutes a flagrant violation of International Law” and undermines the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace.
The Cuban government recalled that Washington “has reached this point after having failed for 67 years to subdue and destroy a genuine and legitimate political and revolutionary process,” and reaffirmed the island’s historic willingness to engage in bilateral dialogue based on mutual respect.
He emphasized that “Cuba poses no threat whatsoever to the United States” and described the country as “a peaceful, supportive and cooperative country, willing to help and contribute to other states.”
He warned that imperialism “is mistaken when it believes that economic pressure will break the resolve to defend national sovereignty.”
Finally, he called on the international community to define “whether a crime of this nature can be a sign of what is to come” and reaffirmed the decision to confront the measure “with firmness, equanimity and the certainty that reason is absolutely on our side.”
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