The member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, on the occasion of yesterday’s 63rd anniversary of the promulgation of the Mallory Memorandum, condemned on Twitter the validity of the document and its repercussions on the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the U.S. on our country.
The Cuban Foreign Minister affirmed that such “inhuman policy of maximum pressure and economic asphyxiation ignores the universal clamor for a better Cuba without a blockade”.
He added that the “U.S. government applies the script of the Mallory Memorandum, promulgated 63 years ago”, but fails in its “attempt to subjugate a sovereign nation, a bastion of dignity and creative resistance”.
In the tweet, Rodríguez Parrilla attached an excerpt from Lester Mallory’s Secret U.S. Department of State Memorandum, in which he leaves in writing the fundamentals of his policy against the Island: “Most Cubans support Castro… the only foreseeable way to detract from his domestic support is through disenchantment and dissatisfaction arising from economic malaise and material hardship….
“All possible means must be rapidly employed to weaken the economic life of Cuba… a course of action which, being as skillful and discreet as possible, will achieve the greatest progress in depriving Cuba of money and supplies, to reduce its financial resources and real wages, to provoke hunger, despair and the overthrow of the Government,” the text reads.
(Taken from Granma in Spanish)
