Mexico City, March 16 (Prensa Latina) Havana’s ambassador to Mexico, Eugenio Martínez, asserted today that the United States representative here offends Cuba by denying his government’s responsibility in the criminal blockade against the Caribbean nation.
“Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace,” Benito Juárez taught us. Today, as we celebrate his birth in Our America, the US representative offends Cuba by denying his government’s responsibility for the criminal siege against my people,” he said on X.
Yesterday, Washington’s ambassador to this capital, Ronald Johnson, stated on the same social network that, “to paraphrase @SecRubio (Secretary of State Marco Rubio), the best way to help the Cuban people is by empowering them, not the regime that has oppressed them for decades.”
However, the United States has imposed an economic, commercial and financial blockade on the island for more than 60 years, reinforced in January through an executive order signed by the US president, Donald Trump.
In that context and following various displays of solidarity in Mexico, the newspaper La Jornada called on Tuesday for support for Cuba and published a bank account aimed at collecting financial contributions from those who wish to cooperate in acquiring products destined for the largest of the Antilles.
On Saturday, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador invited Mexicans to join the call.
“I am retired, but it hurts me that they seek to exterminate the brotherly people of Cuba for their ideals of freedom and defense of sovereignty,” said X, who was the president of this country between 2018 and 2024, through the social network.
The former dignitary reminded “those who think this is someone else’s fight” of what “General (Lázaro) Cárdenas said during the Bay of Pigs invasion: ‘It is not right to advocate indifference to their heroic struggle, because their fate is ours.’”
President Claudia Sheinbaum stated this Monday that she will make a personal contribution to the initiative in support of Cuba and reaffirmed the continuity of support for the island provided by Mexico, from where several ships with material aid have departed.
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