Rodriguez wrote on his X profile, “Now it is proposing to impose a total blockade on fuel supplies to our country. To justify this, it relies on a long list of lies that attempt to portray Cuba as a threat which it is not.”

US President Donald Trump signed on Thursday an executive order declaring a “national emergency” regarding the Caribbean nation, through which he plans to impose tariffs on countries that sell or supply oil to Cuba. In response to the alleged threat described by Trump, who accused the island of supporting “hostile actors” toward Washington, the diplomat asserted that every day brings fresh evidence that the only threat to the peace, security, and stability of the region is the United States.

He noted, “The malign influence is that exerted by the US government against the nations and peoples of Our America, whom it attempts to subject to its dictates, plunder their resources, mutilate their sovereignty, and deprive them of their independence.”

The Cuban foreign minister warned that the White House also resorts to blackmail and coercion to try to get other countries to join its universally condemned policy of blockade against Cuba, threatening them with the imposition of arbitrary and abusive tariffs if they refuse, in violation of all free trade regulations.

We denounce before the world this brutal act of aggression against Cuba and its people, which for more than 65 years have been subjected to the longest and cruelest economic blockade ever implemented against an entire nation, and now threatened with being subjected to extreme living conditions, Rodriguez underscored on social media.

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