The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, denounced this Monday the unprecedented escalation of the United States blockade against Cuba, while dismantling one of the most repeated fallacies of the U.S. government.
“In the leadership of our Party, State, Government, and its military institutions, no one has any assets or property to protect under U.S. jurisdiction,” the president stated. The U.S. government knows this perfectly well, so much so that there isn’t even any evidence to present. The anti-Cuban rhetoric of hate tries to make people believe they exist in order to justify the escalation of their total economic war.”
Díaz-Canel described as immoral, illegal, and criminal the recent executive order that targets third parties who want to sell fuel to the island, and the one that extra-territorializes the blockade to unprecedented levels, penalizing companies that aspire to invest in Cuba or simply provide basic goods such as food, medicine, hygiene products, and others.
“The collective punishment to which they are subjecting the Cuban people is an act of genocide that must be condemned by international organizations, and its promoters must be prosecuted.”
The president reiterated that Cuba will continue to denounce, in the firmest and most energetic manner, the genocidal siege that seeks to strangle our people, and concluded with the slogan: #TheHomelandIsDefended.
[ SOURCE: www.cubainformacion.tv ]
