Cuba Declares ‘International Emergency’ Amid US Threats
Cuba declared "an international emergency" in view of the "extraordinary threat" from the United States, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla said.
"The people of Cuba, with the solidarity of the international community, find that the situation with respect to the US Government constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part, in the US anti-Cuban neo-fascist right wing, to the national security and foreign policy of all countries, international Peace and security and the survival of Humanity in the face of nuclear threat and climate change, and hereby declare an international emergency with respect to that threat," he wrote on his X page.On Thursday, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order allowing for duties on foreign countries that provide any oil to Cuba. The top Cuban diplomat condemned these measures that are fraught with "a total blockade of oil supplies". These measures "violate all principles of free trade" and create "extreme living conditions" for the Cubans, he added.Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel also denounced Friday what he called an attempt by Trump to "suffocate" the island's flailing economy."Under a false and baseless pretext... President Trump intends to suffocate the Cuban economy by imposing tariffs on countries that sovereignly trade oil with Cuba," Diaz-Canel wrote on X."This new measure reveals the fascist, criminal and genocidal nature of a clique that has hijacked the interests of the American people for purely personal ends," he added.
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