Havana, April 4 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez accused the United States today of hiding for years its intention to damage the Caribbean country’s economy in order to harm its population.
“Now, the State Department envoy publicly confesses it, as if it were legitimate to attack and abuse an entire population to force a change of government,” Rodríguez denounced on the social network X.
In this regard, Cuban diplomats pointed out that, despite the United States’ denials, it is impossible to deny that the blockade is a weapon of aggression, abusive, inhumane, and immoral.
Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío also denounced in X that U.S. government officials “no longer hide their goal of destroying the Cuban economy and the results of what they have achieved in causing pain to the people. It used to be a covert policy, and they used to blame the Cuban government for our economic problems.”
According to Johana Tablada, deputy director general of the United States Directorate of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, the U.S. war policy has failed in its political objective, but it has succeeded in causing suffering to Cuban families.
In an interview with the website Cubainformación, he argued that the U.S. nation’s economic warfare measures served to torture the Cuban population, “in a kind of laboratory experiment to suffocate and cut off all their sources of income.”
When asked why President Donald Trump isn’t taking steps toward lifting the blockade, he explained that “the issue of Cuba has been outsourced to sectors in South Florida, which have made a lucrative business out of the policy of aggression against the Cuban Revolution and the economic siege of our country.”
The hypothetical end of the siege on the island, he admitted, would be beneficial for both countries, in areas such as investment, culture, or access to Cuban medications such as Heberprot-P, which prevents diabetic foot amputation, a condition that affects thousands of people in the United States.
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