CUBA denounces the US for trying to prevent access to life saving fuels

HAVANA, Cuba, April 4, 2024 - The Government of Cuba has again lashed out at the Biden administration as it continues to pursue its 60 year old policy of “regime change” by trying to prevent the country from acquiring life saving fuels, with the intention of damaging its economy and causing a social implosion.

Cuban foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla,through his account on social network X, said: "As part of its genocidal blockade, the US government is determined to deprive Cuba of fuel supplies".

Parrilla has described the action by the US as an "unconventional war measure that violates international law and cruelly damages families.”

Faltaría a la verdad quien no reconozca al #BloqueoGenocida como la principal causa del deterioro de la situación económica de Cuba, que ha
llevado a una cantidad no despreciable de cubanos a buscar otras vías de realización en otros países. #MejorSinBloqueo pic.twitter.com/bvZP8Q3bC3

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This is not the first time that the Cuban authorities have denounced the destabilizing intention of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba for more than six decades by a dozen United States administrations.

 The text reads: As part of its Genocidal Blockade , the US government is determined to deprive Cuba of fuel supplies, an unconventional war measure that violates International Law and cruelly harms Cuban families.

On March 21, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez recalled during a public appearance that Washington escalated the persecution against producers, insurers, shipping companies, financial and other companies that offer services related to fuels to avoid at all costs that Cuba can acquire them.

In recent months, such an escalation led to the paralysis of some of the electricity generation, passenger transport and other economic activities of a vital nature, all with the intention of affecting working and living conditions and generating unrest among the population.

In statements to teleSUR, in November 2023, the Cuban Foreign Minister revealed that from the second half of 2019 the US blockade became more extraterritorial and aggressive, as well as more cruelly effective trying to cut the income of his country.

How is it that Cuba is still under embargo and listed as a terrorist nation, but israel is totally OK and deserves endless funds?

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He explained that, at current prices, the damages of the U.S. blockade to Cuba over more than 60 years amount to 159 billion dollars.

He explained that, if calculated at the value of gold, "then the damage is greater than one trillion in Spanish, that is, one million million plus 337,000 mill

He explained that, if calculated at the value of gold, "then the damage is more than a trillion in Spanish, that is, a million million plus 337 billion dollars, an extraordinary figure for any economy," he said.