Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez denounced this Thursday that the new entry ban on nationals of several countries to the United States has racist undertones.
Through the social media platform X, the island’s top diplomat stated that the measure, implemented with the support of anti-Cuban politicians, harms contact between families in this nation and damages personal, professional, academic, and cultural exchanges between the two countries.
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation the day before to prohibit and restrict travel from several countries to the United States, citing alleged security risks.
The Proclamation fully restricts and limits entry from 12 countries: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.
While it “partially restricts and limits” the entry of citizens of seven nations that, according to the directive, “also represent a high level of risk to the United States,” including Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.
Regarding this Caribbean nation, President Trump repeated the false and arbitrary arguments that the island is a state sponsor of terrorism and that “the Cuban government does not cooperate or share sufficient law enforcement information with the United States.”
