Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Josefina Vidal expressed her gratitude for Mexico’s solidarity during a meeting on Friday in the capital with the Undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Raquel Serur.
According to a press release from the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, Serur received the deputy foreign minister Friday morning, who is on a working visit to Mexico.
“During the meeting, the Cuban Deputy Minister conveyed the gratitude of the Cuban government and people for the expressions of solidarity from the Mexican government and people, demonstrated through statements and actions, including the systematic shipment of substantial material aid,” the release stated.
Both women shared their views on the international and regional situation, and Vidal updated her counterpart on the impact of the intensified economic blockade imposed by the United States government against Cuba and its people.
The Undersecretary was accompanied by her office coordinator, Helietta González, and the Director for the Caribbean, José Luis Hernández, while Cuba was represented by Ambassador Eugenio Martínez and Ambassador Johana Tablada, Deputy Chief of Mission.
In an interview with Canal Red América Latina, based in Mexico, the Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister described the economic war imposed by Washington as brutal and denounced its aim to completely strangle the Cuban economy.
She mentioned, first and foremost, the implementation of the energy blockade, “a completely illegal measure.”
“No one in the world has the right to dictate to other countries who they can trade with, to whom they can sell their natural resources, and no one in the world has the right to dictate or impose on Cuba where it acquires the products and supplies it needs for its development.”
She added that on May 1, another executive order went much further “in the attempt to internationalize the blockade against Cuba, because it threatens, and in fact is already doing so, with the imposition of secondary sanctions on any foreign entity that has operated or is operating” with the island.
Josefina Vidal asserted that the impact this is having on the economy is already very visible.
“It is a policy aimed, on the one hand, at strangling the Cuban economy to push the Cuban population into an intolerable situation, one they cannot endure. That has always been the purpose of the blockade against Cuba: to create desperation and thereby provoke a rebellion among the people.”
The deputy foreign minister noted, secondly, that with these secondary sanctions measures, Washington’s objective is to completely disconnect the largest island of the Antilles from the international economic and financial system.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
