Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, affirmed that within the leadership of the Party, State, Government, and their military institutions, no one has any active assets or property to protect under U.S. jurisdiction, and that the U.S. government is fully aware of this, as there is not even any evidence to present.

Through his official account on the social network X, the president denounced Monday that the "anti-Cuban rhetoric of hatred tries to make people believe they exist in order to justify the escalation of their total economic war."

"That is why we will continue to denounce, in the firmest and most energetic manner, the genocidal siege that seeks to strangle our people," he stated under the hashtag #LaPatriaSeDefiende (The Homeland Defends Itself).

Díaz-Canel labeled as "immoral, illegal, and criminal" the executive order that pursues and threatens third parties wishing to sell fuel to Cuba, as well as the one that extraterritorializes the blockade to unprecedented levels, penalizing companies that wish to invest in Cuba or simply provide basic goods such as food, medicine, hygiene products, or others.

"The collective punishment to which the Cuban people are being subjected is an act of genocide that must be condemned by international organizations and its promoters must be criminally prosecuted," he declared.

The president's statements respond to the new sanctions imposed Monday by the United States Department of the Treasury against Cuban leaders.

The measure, authorized under the executive order signed by Donald Trump on May 1, blocks all assets of those sanctioned under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibits U.S. companies and citizens from conducting transactions with them.

That executive order imposes secondary sanctions against foreign entities operating in strategic sectors of the Cuban economy, such as energy, mining, defense, and financial services.

The measure, which allows for the blocking of assets of international banks that facilitate transactions with Cuba, has been described by the Cuban Foreign Ministry as "an act of ruthless economic aggression" that multiplies the extraterritorial effects of the blockade.

Cuba has repeatedly filed complaints with international bodies regarding the extraterritorial and criminal nature of the blockade.

The United Nations General Assembly has each year passed by an overwhelming majority the resolution demanding an end to this policy.