Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez denounced on Tuesday that the United States government intends to make “humanity complicit in a terrible oil blockade” against Cuba, on the 64th anniversary of the total ’embargo’ decreed by Kennedy.
Through the social network X, the Foreign Minister pointed out that the suffering of the Cuban people “has been a profitable business for anti-Cuban politicians,” who enrich themselves with U.S. public funds.
Rodríguez recalled that this February 3rd marks 64 years since Presidential Proclamation 3447, signed by Kennedy in 1962, which formalized the “total embargo on all trade between the United States and Cuba.”
In the latest escalation of unilateral coercive measures that Washington has maintained since then, the Trump administration signed an executive order on January 29 establishing a tariff system against countries that supply oil to Cuba.
This measure has been described by the Cuban Revolutionary Government as a flagrant violation of international law and an unprecedented humanitarian threat to the civilian population.
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