In a press release, the leftist organization denounced the US State Department’s intention to present this strategy to Congress to “install an unfounded slander under that name, which they use to refer euphemistically to countries that do not comply with their geopolitical interests.

We do not accept, the text underlines, that the Government of the United States should be the one to draw up this kind of list, “which seek to maintain policies of economic warfare against Cuba, such as the inhumane blockade to which the population of the Caribbean nation has been subjected for more than six decades.

The Frente Amplio’s statement, to which Prensa Latina had access, recalls that Cuba has been the object of systematic terrorist actions by and from Washington since the triumph of the Revolution, with proven attacks against the population, agricultural and industrial production, the electrical grid, and the economy in general.

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