Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodr\u00edguez Parrilla stated on Thursday that, for the first time, the United States government has publicly formalized, through a statement from the State Department, an offer of aid to the island valued at $100 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt remains unclear whether the aid will be in cash or in kind, and whether it will be allocated to the most urgent needs of the people, such as fuel, food and medicine,\u201d Rodr\u00edguez wrote on his social media accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He maintained that \u201cin any case, even considering the incongruity of the apparent generosity on the part of those who subject the Cuban people to collective punishment through economic warfare, the Cuban government does not, as a matter of practice, reject foreign aid offered in good faith and with genuine cooperative aims, whether bilateral or multilateral.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe also has no objection to working with the Catholic Church, with whose cooperative efforts he has a long and positive history of joint work,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cuba\u2019s top diplomat stated that \u201cwe are willing to listen to the details of the offer and how it would be implemented.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe hope it will be free of political maneuvering and attempts to exploit the needs and suffering of a people under siege,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He stated that the best help the U.S. government could give to the noble Cuban people now and at any time is to de-escalate the energy, economic, commercial, and financial blockade, which has intensified like never before in recent months, severely affecting all sectors of the Cuban economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The day before, Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel reported on the social media platform X that the situation of the National Electrical System would be particularly tense in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis dramatic worsening has a single cause: the genocidal energy blockade that the United States imposes on our country, threatening with irrational tariffs any nation that supplies us with fuel,\u201d the head of state said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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