Cuba denounces new U.S. escalation to suffocate its economy

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Via the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), translated from the Spanish

The Government of the Republic of Cuba condemns in the strongest terms the announcement of new measures by the Government of the United States aimed at intensifying the economic, commercial and financial embargo against the country, through actions aimed at cutting off the supply of fuel and sanctioning third States that maintain legitimate commercial relations with Cuba.

The First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Republic of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, said that these decisions are adopted "under a mendacious pretext and lacking of arguments," promoted by "those who make politics and enrich themselves at the expense of the suffering of our people." The Head of State pointed out that the declared objective is "to suffocate the Cuban economy by imposing tariffs on countries that sovereignly trade oil with Cuba."

Díaz Canel questioned the repeated statements of U.S. authorities who deny the existence of the blockade, saying: "Didn't the Secretary of State and his harlequins say that the blockade did not exist?" as well as the narrative that tries to reduce it to a simple "embargo on bilateral trade."

For his part, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, on the social network X, denounced that this decision constitutes a new escalation of Washington's policy of hostility and warned that it intends to impose "a total blockade on Cuba's fuel supplies," resorting to "a long list of lies with the purpose of portraying Cuba as a threat, which it actually is not."

The Cuban Foreign Minister stressed that the "only threat to peace, security and stability in the region and the only malignant influence is the one exerted by the US government against the peoples and nations of our America," which, he said, they are trying to subdue through practices of political and economic coercion that seek to "deprive them of their resources, mutilate their sovereignty and deprive them of their independence."

Rodríguez Parrilla also denounced the fact that the United States resorts to "blackmail and coercion" to pressure other countries to join its blockade policy, threatening them with the imposition of "arbitrary and abusive tariffs" if they refuse, which constitutes a flagrant violation of "all the rules of free trade" and international law.

These actions are part of a policy sustained for more than six decades, through which the Cuban people have been subjected to "longest-lasting and most cruel blockade ever imposed against an entire nation," and warned that the new measures announced seek to deliberately worsen the living conditions of the population.

The Government of the Republic of Cuba denounces this new act of aggression before the international community and reiterates its call for it to reject the application of unilateral coercive measures, contrary to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, which violate the sovereignty of states and seriously affect the well-being of their people.

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