Washington, January 30 (Prensa Latina) Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib stated today that Cuba poses no threat to the United States and that she is horrified by the attempt by the Donald Trump administration to strangle an entire people.
Tlaib, a member of the House of Representatives from Michigan, reacted in this way to the executive order signed by President Trump on January 29 declaring a “national emergency” regarding Cuba.
Therefore, the Republican president considered imposing a tariff regime against all countries that directly or indirectly try to supply oil to the island.
“This Executive Order will kill countless innocent Cubans,” the legislator wrote on her social media account, emphasizing in the statement that “homes, schools, and hospitals without electricity. Children without food or medicine. Cuba poses no threat to the United States. This is pure cruelty.”
Trump’s measure, which has met with strong rejection both inside and outside the United States, is a further tightening of the unilateral embargo that has been trying to suffocate Cubans for more than six decades and is part of the current maximum pressure policy of the White House against Cuba.
President Trump conditions the modification of this directive “on Cuba or the affected countries taking significant steps to address the threat or to align themselves with the national security and foreign policy objectives of the United States.”
Upon his return to the executive mansion on January 20, 2025, Trump took among his first actions in office to reverse a decision made just seven days earlier by his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, by reinstating Cuba on the arbitrary and unilateral list of alleged state sponsors of terrorism.
Since then, hostile measures have rained down on the Caribbean nation in an attempt by the United States government to bring it down and provoke a regime change.
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