Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez says that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is once again attempting to blame the Cuban government for the harm the U.S. administration inflicts on the Cuban people.
“The Secretary of State is repeating his mendacious script and trying to blame the Cuban government for the ruthless damage the U.S. government is inflicting on the Cuban people. He is the mouthpiece of corrupt and vindictive interests, concentrated in South Florida, which do not represent the feelings of the majority of the American people, nor of the Cubans who live there.” the Foreign Minister wrote in X.
Writing on his X account, the Cuban foreign minister said: “He continues to talk about $100 million in aid, which Cuba has not rejected, but whose cynicism is evident to anyone given the devastating effects of the economic blockade and the energy embargo.”
Bruno Rodríguez argued that the Secretary of State is exploiting the infamous date of May 20th, which inaugurated a neocolonial period for Cuba, as a dependent appendage of the United States, a status to which the top U.S. diplomat wants Cuba to return.
“Neocolonial Cuba and the Platt Amendment are the past. The present and the future are independence and sovereignty.”
Marco Rubio claimed this Wednesday that May 20, 1902, represents Cuba’s independence, highlighting that on that day the Cuban flag flew for the first time over a sovereign country, but without acknowledging that the Caribbean nation ceased to be a colony of Spain and became a neocolony of the United States.
On this day in 1902, the Cuban flag flew for the first time over an independent country, the head of U.S. diplomacy in Cuba stated, distorting history.
He also noted that the current situation on the island is critical, mentioning prolonged blackouts, shortages of food, fuel and electricity, but he did not say that it is the economic, commercial and financial blockade, to which the oil blockade is added, that is responsible for the shortages suffered by the Cuban population and the main obstacle to the development of the country.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
