Cuba’s FM Accuses US of Escalating Economic Pressure on Island Nation

(MENAFN) Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Tuesday accused the United States of intensifying pressure on the island through economic measures while also signaling the possibility of military action.

In remarks shared on the US social media platform X, Rodriguez suggested that Washington has been hinting at intervention by portraying Cuba as weakened. He said: “The (US) government insists in hinting at a military action against (Cuba) because 'the country is devastated ... and it would be an honor to liberate it,”

He further criticized US policy toward Cuba, arguing that economic pressure has been used for decades and has recently intensified. “The cynical and hypocritical thing about it is that the US has, for decades, tried to devastate the country by imposing an economic warfare; and that government has been doing so with greater zeal during the last two months through the adoption of two genocidal Executive Orders," he said.

Rodriguez maintained that both the ongoing economic restrictions and any potential military move would breach international law, describing such actions as “international crimes.”

"Both the economic blockade and energy siege as well as the new extraterritorial coercive measures; the threat of a military attack and the aggression itself are international crimes," he added.

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