Havana, July 12 (ACN) Miguel Díaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, today condemned the United States (US) government sanctions against the Caribbean nation.
What bothers the US about Cuba is its true independence, that transnational corporations do not govern here, that we have free healthcare and education, that we do not ask permission to condemn crimes like those of Israel and the US against the Palestinians, the president declared on his X account.
This Friday, the US State Department sanctioned President Miguel Díaz-Canel, as well as Álvaro López Miera and Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, ministers of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior, respectively.
Unilateral sanctions were also issued against their immediate family members, who will not be able to travel to the United States.
In response to the news, Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz asserted that the decision adds to the economic warfare measures the Trump administration maintains against Cuba.
The United States is capable of imposing immigration sanctions against revolutionary leaders and maintaining a prolonged and ruthless economic war against Cuba, but it cannot bend the will of these people or their leaders, stated Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla at the X meeting.
(Taken from ACN)
