Mexico City, January 30 (Prensa Latina) Mexican congresswoman Dolores Padierna stated that the executive order signed by US President Donald Trump against Cuba is not foreign policy, but pure imperialism.
“This is not foreign policy: it is imperialism in its purest form. It is a trade war aggression that seeks to punish sovereign countries and turn hunger and energy into weapons of pressure,” the legislator said in a message on her social media account.
According to the deputy coordinator of the Morena party’s parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies, these are “inhuman, illegal and coercive measures, designed to suffocate an entire people and force geopolitical alignments.”
“There is no national security here: there is economic domination, international blackmail and collective punishment,” he denounced.
Trump signed the executive order yesterday declaring a national emergency and establishing a process to impose tariffs on goods from countries that sell or supply oil to Cuba.
The measure, another turn of the screw in the blockade that has been trying to suffocate the Cuban people for more than 60 years, is part of the current maximum pressure policy of the Trump administration against the island, and attempts to justify it with the interest of national security and foreign policy of the United States.
After returning to the White House on January 20, 2025, the Republican took among his first measures in office to reverse a decision made just seven days prior by his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, and reincluded Cuba on the arbitrary and unilateral list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Since then, hostile measures have rained down on the Caribbean nation in an attempt by the US government to make it collapse and bring about regime change.
According to the most recent data, the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by Washington on Cuba caused damages estimated at seven billion 556.1 million dollars between March 2024 and last February, an increase of 49 percent compared to the previous period.
In the health sector alone, that policy resulted in losses of nearly $300 million in one year, while the impact in the energy sector exceeded $496 million due to restrictions on importing fuels and spare parts.
On October 29, Cuba achieved a new victory in the United Nations General Assembly by obtaining 165 votes in favor of the resolution calling for an end to the blockade.
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