“Now, a State Department envoy publicly confesses it, as if it were legitimate to attack and abuse an entire population to force a change of government,” Rodríguez denounced on the social network X.

In this regard, Cuban diplomats pointed out that, despite the United States’ denials, it is impossible to deny that the blockade is a weapon of aggression, abusive, inhumane, and immoral.

Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío also denounced in X that US government officials “no longer hide behind their goal of destroying the Cuban economy and the results of what they have achieved in causing pain to the people. It used to be a covert policy, and they used to blame the Cuban government for our economic problems.”

According to Johana Tablada, Deputy Director General of the US Directorate of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, the US war policy has failed in its political objective, but it has succeeded in causing pain to Cuban families.

In an interview with the website Cubainformación, she considered that the US economic war measures served to torture the Cuban population, “in a kind of laboratory experiment to suffocate and cut off all their sources of income.”

When asked why President Donald Trump isn’t taking steps toward lifting the blockade, he stated that “the issue of Cuba has been outsourced to sectors in South Florida, which have made a lucrative business out of the policy of aggression against the Cuban Revolution and the economic siege of our country.”

The hypothetical end of the siege on the island, he admitted, would be beneficial for both countries, in areas such as investment, culture, or access to Cuban medications such as Heberprot-P, which prevents diabetic foot amputation, a condition that affects thousands of people in the United States.

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