In a conversation held the day before at the Cuban embassy in Rome with officials, led by the head of that mission, Mirta Granda, the deputy foreign minister referred to the “maximum pressure” policy being applied by the administration of US President Donald Trump against both Latin American nations.

During the colloquium, the Cuban deputy foreign minister addressed the grave danger posed by the United States’ aggressive actions against Venezuela, with a military deployment off its coast, which violates the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, adopted in Havana in 2014.

During her speech at the 12th Italy-Latin America and the Caribbean Conference, which brought together foreign ministers and senior officials from 34 countries on October 7 in Rome, the diplomat expressed, on behalf of Cuba, her concern over these actions “which could have incalculable consequences for our region.”

Furthermore, at the Cuban embassy, Vidal also referred to the priority that the current US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, gives to the intensification of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade against her country, imposed for more than 60 years, with the aim of destroying the revolutionary process.

One of Trump’s first executive orders, he recalled, was to place Cuba back on the spurious unilateral list of alleged state sponsors of terrorism, a measure that has serious economic consequences.

He alluded to the fact that, despite the implementation of a severe spending cut program by the current US administration, which included the closure of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the financing of subversion against Cuba remained intact.

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