During the Fifth Session of the legislative body, lawmakers denounced the US presidential memorandum of June 30, 2025, which tightens the blockade, further escalating the economic, commercial, and financial war as a means to advance imperialist and colonialist ambitions to dominate Cuba.

The parliamentarians reiterated that US aggression against Cuba violates International Law and multiple UN resolutions, a policy that also infringes on the right to self-determination—a principle under which Cubans have sovereignly established their national project, the declaration emphasizes.

The text states that the “current shortages and major challenges facing the Cuban economy in its recovery, growth, and development are the result of the extreme reinforcement of the blockade, which, particularly since 2017, has taken on a qualitatively more damaging effect.”

It further notes that the shortages of food, medicine, fuel, and electricity now affecting the Cuban people would not exist had this “genocidal economic war” not been prolonged and intensified.

The parliamentary statement outlines the consequences of the blockade, including:Prohibiting Americans from traveling to Cuba, restricting fuel supplies, obstructing remittance transfers, and pressuring third-party governments that receive Cuban medical services.

At the same time, Washington intimidates commercial and financial entities worldwide to prevent them from engaging with Cuba, while its measures encourage lawsuits in US courts against investors on the island, the statement adds.

The declaration also condemns Cuba’s “unjust and arbitrary inclusion” on the US list of so-called state sponsors of terrorism, while reaffirming that “the political will of this people will not be broken nor subjected to the hegemonic dictates of the US government.”

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