The Cuban government has condemned the new escalation by the United States against the country, which it described as a \u201cbrutal act of aggression\u201d against the island and its people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe condemn in the strongest terms the new escalation by the U.S. against Cuba,\u201d stated Foreign Minister Bruno Rodr\u00edguez in a message published on his social media accounts. \u201cNow they are proposing to impose a total blockade on fuel supplies to our country,\u201d the Cuban foreign minister stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under the pretext of an unusual and extraordinary threat from Cuba, the Trump administration on Thursday reinforced measures aimed at increasing the blockade against the country\u2019s economy and causing more human suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump signed an executive order establishing that his administration could impose tariffs on goods from countries that sell or supply oil to the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Foreign Minister Bruno Rodr\u00edguez said that to justify this escalation, Washington \u201crelies on a long list of lies that attempt to portray Cuba as a threat it is not.\u201d \u201cEvery day there is new evidence that the only threat to the peace, security, and stability of the region, and the only malign influence, is that exerted by the U.S. government against the nations and peoples of Our America, which it attempts to subject to its dictates, plunder their resources, mutilate their sovereignty, and deprive them of their independence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He asserted that \u201cthe US is also resorting to blackmail and coercion to try to force other countries to join its universally condemned blockade policy against Cuba, threatening them with arbitrary and abusive tariffs if they refuse, in violation of all free trade norms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe denounce before the world this brutal act of aggression against Cuba and its people, who for more than 65 years have been subjected to the longest and cruelest economic blockade ever applied against an entire nation, and whom it now promises to subject to extreme living conditions,\u201d the Foreign Minister concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cuban authorities ask: \u201cWhat will come next?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos R. Fern\u00e1ndez de Coss\u00edo joined in condemning the latest escalation by the US empire and, in a message on his Facebook page, called on the international community to remain vigilant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe international community must be vigilant. Based on a long list of lies that no one believes, the US president has signed an order threatening sovereign states with tariffs if they refuse to join the blockade against Cuba, especially regarding fuel supplies,\u201d the official stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fern\u00e1ndez de Coss\u00edo asked: \u201cWhat will come next?\u201d \u201cIf this demand is accepted, a new and grotesque chapter of global subservience will begin, opening a dangerous path whose destination is unknown and from which no state with any sense of sovereignty can feel safe,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The deputy foreign minister noted that \u201cthe effect extends beyond Cuba\u2019s borders, although it is our people who have long faced, with stoicism, the cruel and criminal economic war waged by imperialism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IMAGE CREDIT: \u201cWe denounce before the world this brutal act of aggression against Cuba and its people, who for more than 65 years have been subjected to the longest and cruelest economic blockade ever applied against an entire nation,\u201d the foreign minister emphasized. Photo: ACN\/Archive<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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