{"id":10267,"date":"2026-03-03T22:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=10267"},"modified":"2026-03-03T22:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:02:19","slug":"cuba-defends-its-sovereign-right-to-develop-economic-and-trade-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/cuba-defends-its-sovereign-right-to-develop-economic-and-trade-relations-03032026\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba defends its sovereign right to develop economic and trade relations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodr\u00edguez has defended his country\u2019s right to develop international economic and trade relations without interference from any government or nation, no matter how powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The island\u2019s foreign minister made it clear on his social media account that \u201cas a sovereign country, #Cuba has the willingness and the capacity to develop economic and trade relations with any nation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The head of Cuban diplomacy also argued that \u201cthis is how international trade should develop,\u201d while dispelling doubts in a clear allusion to the measures against his country from the White House, stating that \u201cthe government of a powerful nation should not have the prerogative or the capacity to dictate how and with which nations another state can develop its foreign trade.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States has maintained an economic, commercial, and financial blockade against Cuba for more than six decades, along with a series of sanctions, restrictions, and a web of laws designed to pressure and punish those who establish any economic, commercial, or financial ties with the Caribbean nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This policy of harassment, aimed at strangling the Cuban people and provoking change in the country, has intensified to unprecedented levels under the current U.S. administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodr&iacute;guez has defended his country&rsquo;s right to develop international economic and trade relations without interference from any government or nation, no matter how powerful. The island&rsquo;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[42],"class_list":["post-10267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba"],"authors":[{"term_id":42,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"radio-habana-cuba","display_name":"Radio Habana Cuba","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10268,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267\/revisions\/10268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10267"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=10267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}