According to the deputy director general of the United States Department at the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Johana Tablada, the dismissal of some 5,800 employees, and the cut of more than 400 billion dollars of the funds of that Agency by the administration of Donald Trump is in reality a rearrangement of these subversive programs.
Proof of this is the recent announcement of unilateral sanctions that increase the aggression against Cuba’s international medical cooperation under fallacious arguments.
Tablada noted that these programs do not contain any of the characteristics that define an operation of exploitation or human trafficking, and they conform to the United Nations schemes for South-South cooperation.
This collaboration is respectful of the national laws of the receiving countries, and provides real benefits to the people of these nations, the diplomat said on the Mesa Redonda (Round Table) radio and television program.
On February 25, the US State Department announced the decision to suspend visas associated with international medical cooperation agreements with Cuba, a measure described by Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez as another unjustified aggression against the people of Cuba.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio once again places his personal agenda ahead of the interests of his country. The suspension of visas associated with international medical cooperation agreements with Cuba represents the seventh measure of unjustified aggression against our population in a month, he noted on X.
On the television program, Professor Jacinto Valdés-Dapena recalled that the USAID was created on November 3, 1961, after the failure of the invasion of mercenary troops at Playa Girón (Bay of Pigs), due to the US Government’s need to isolate the Cuban Revolution and silence its example.
For the panelists, this financing with the purpose of promoting a regime change continues today, directly and indirectly, for example, to the so-called independent press, despite the fear of the recipients of these funds about its possible suspension.
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