“The measures taken by the United States government to obstruct the free trade of Venezuelan oil resources and to target ships transporting fuel to Cuba are neither new nor directly related to the current military deployment in the Caribbean and the naval blockade against Venezuela,” he stated in a post on the social network X.

“They are part of the clear objective of destroying the Cuban Revolution, overthrowing the legitimate Bolivarian and Chavista government, and forcibly usurping the region’s critical and strategic natural resources,” he asserted.

He also stated that it is for this purpose that they intensify their policy of pressure and suffocation against the island daily, with a direct impact on the national power grid and, consequently, on the daily lives of the Cuban population.

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