“In a barbaric act, the new government of the United States announces the deporting of detainees to the US naval base in Guantanamo, a portion of Cuban territory illegally occupied against the will of the people of the island. The migrants will be forcibly deported to a prison known for torturing and illegal detentions,” Diaz-Canel said in a post on X, the Sri Lankan newspaper reported.
The newspaper also referred to statements made by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, who not only rejected the US move but pointed out that sending migrants to a region where the United States has created torture and indefinite detention centers is an affront to humanity and international law.
In a statement, the Cuban Foreign Ministry (MINREX) described the US decision as a demonstration of the brutality with which the administration of US President Donald Trump acts to correct problems “supposedly” created by the country’s economic and social conditions, management, and foreign policy.
The Ministry considered that many of the people that the United States is expelling or proposing to expel are victims of that government’s plundering policies and cover the labor needs that agriculture, construction, industry, services, and several sectors of the US economy have had historically.
The MINREX stated that the migrants are also the result of border facilities to enter the country, politically motivated selective regulations to receive them as refugees, and the socio-economic damage caused by unilateral coercive measures.
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