Through the social media platform X, the foreign minister expressed his gratitude to co-presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, as well as to the Government of National Unity and Reconciliation and its revolutionary people for their denunciation of the memorandum, which intensifies the blockade against Cuba.

Through that same platform, the highest representative of Cuban diplomacy expressed his appreciation for the denunciation made by Bolivian President Luis Arce, regarding the US measures.

The day before, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the Caribbean nation’s firm rejection of the Presidential Memorandum on National Security issued by the United States government. By reissuing a similar one from 2017, it intensifies the economic siege and causes greater hardship for the population.

In a statement, it specified that these measures have been maintained over the past eight years and explain the shortcomings and significant challenges facing the Cuban economy in its recovery, growth, and development.

It added that the original 2017 Memorandum has been the political platform that promoted, among other measures, the almost absolute ban on Americans traveling to Cuba; it led to the persecution of fuel supplies and the obstruction of remittances.

The Foreign Ministry’s statement affirmed that “U.S. leaders and politicians have the audacity to declare that they are acting in this way for the good of the Cuban people,” using terms “such as democracy, human rights, and religious freedom” that “are concepts incompatible with the historically abusive and transgressive conduct of the U.S. government.”

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