On April 6, 1960, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Lester D. Mallory, in a secret memorandum, defined the philosophy of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed shortly after against the Caribbean nation.

“After 65 years of the infamous memorandum, the United States government maintains the same policy against Cuba,” Rodríguez stated on the social network X.

The Foreign Minister denounced that the US government “makes our people suffer” and attacks “their sources of livelihood” with the implementation of this blockade.

He also accused Washington of including Cuba on the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism, which it unilaterally compiles, of waging a cognitive and communications war against the Caribbean country, and of orchestrating a campaign to defame Cuban medical cooperation.

In the document he sent to Eisenhower, then president of the United States, Mallory suggested destroying Cuba’s economy as “the only foreseeable way to undermine domestic support” for the leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro.

“All possible means must be quickly employed to weaken Cuba’s economic life,” he declared.

For more than six decades, Cuban authorities have denounced this hostility in various national and international forums.

They have also rejected the White House’s intention to excuse this policy and other sanctions from the shortages in this country and, therefore, blame the Cuban government’s actions for them.

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