The United States government has turned lies into a primary weapon of aggression to reinforce its attack against Cuba. This was denounced by Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío through his Facebook account, where he debunked three fundamental fallacies used by the U.S. administration to justify its economic blockade.
The first of these fallacies, according to the Cuban diplomat, was the declaration of Cuba, on January 29, 2026, as an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. national security. A ridiculous assertion, he noted, that “allows the president to apply secondary sanctions against third countries as a way to force them to join the economic blockade against Cuba.”
Based on this false premise, he added, actions have been orchestrated that “deprive Cuba of fuel supplies and seek to provoke a humanitarian crisis.”
Secondly, he called the designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism a fallacy. “That designation unleashes a series of aggressive and coercive actions that also violate international law,” he emphasized, noting that not even the U.S. Congress itself has been able to present evidence to support such an accusation. The measure, imposed and withdrawn repeatedly by different administrations, is considered by the international community to be an act of unilateral coercion that contravenes the principles of the UN Charter.
Finally, Fernández de Cossío refuted the basis of the Helms-Burton Act, which falsely accuses the Cuban government of having illegally confiscated property belonging to Americans. “Cuba did legitimately nationalize, through expropriation, assets and properties belonging to U.S. owners in strict accordance with national law and in full compliance with international law.” The planned compensation mechanism could not be implemented because the U.S. government rejected it while “committing the crime of organizing a mercenary military invasion and attempting to assassinate the leader of the Revolution.”
The deputy foreign minister concluded that “the immense power of the U.S. to use and abuse lies and disseminate them until they become acceptable has become an effective weapon of aggression and imposition of its unilateral and hegemonic will at the expense of the peace and rights of other nations.”
[ SOURCE: GRANMA ]
