Cuba Denounces and Condemns New US Escalation

Cuba's Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez, denounced today a new escalation in the US blockade against the island, aimed at suffocating it through energy pressure—a stance he condemned in the strongest terms.

"Now it [the US] proposes to impose a total blockade on fuel supplies to our country. To justify it, it relies on a long list of lies that attempt to present Cuba as a threat that it is not," he stated on his X account.

Details of the US Executive Order
Yesterday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring a "national emergency" regarding the Antillean nation, through which he plans to impose tariffs on countries that sell or supply oil to Cuba.

Cuba's Rebuttal and Accusation
In response to the alleged threat described by Trump, who accused the island of supporting "hostile actors" toward Washington, Rodríguez asserted that each day brings new evidence that the only threat to peace, security, and stability in the region is the United States. "The malign influence is that exercised by the US government against the nations and peoples of Our America, whom it attempts to subject to its dictate, strip of their resources, mutilate their sovereignty, and deprive of their independence," he stated.

Warning Against Coercion and Violations of Trade Norms
The Cuban Foreign Minister warned that the White House also resorts to blackmail and coercion to try to get other countries to join its universally condemned blockade policy against Cuba, threatening those who refuse with the imposition of arbitrary and abusive tariffs, in violation of all free trade norms.

"We denounce before the world this brutal act of aggression against Cuba and its people, who for over 65 years have been subjected to the longest and cruelest economic blockade ever applied against an entire nation, and to whom the promise is now to subject them to extreme living conditions," he emphasized on the social network.