The head of Cuban diplomacy wrote so on his X account, a platform in which he denounced that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants to visit Havana, “but first change our government. He will be left wanting.”
“He will not be able to visit Cuba, a country about which he knows absolutely nothing. He was not invited,” Rodríguez said.
In his message on X, the foreign minister ratified Cuba’s willingness to defend its sovereignty, and recalled that 13 US presidents and secretaries of state have assumed power since the revolutionary triumph in 1959.
On January 30, the Donald Trump administration approved Cuba’s reinclusion on the List of Restricted Entities, which prohibits financial transactions with Cuban state companies, in addition to denying them resources.
Ten days earlier, the new US administration revoked the decision by President Joe Biden to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list, a step criticized by a large part of the international community.
In this regard, Cuban leaders affirmed that they will act with firmness and dignity in the face of the outrage that these new measures represent.
Cuba also sought support from the international community “to stop, denounce and accompany our people in the face of the new and dangerous onslaught of aggression” by the United States “that has only just begun.”
According to the Foreign Ministry, the announcement may also be the prelude to other measures that the team in charge of the Cuba issue in this government has designed since 2017 to further tighten, gratuitously and irresponsibly, the blockade against Cuba in search of new and avoidable scenarios of deterioration and bilateral confrontation.
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