CGT General Secretary Sophie Binet urged in a letter sent to the president, signed by her, to consider Washington’s new crusade a violation of international law and not to remain passive in the face of such an outrage.

The CGT thus joined its voice to the rejection on French soil of the measures announced in late January by US President Donald Trump, who declared Cuba “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the national security of the United States and decreed an oil siege, threatening tariffs on countries that sell or supply hydrocarbons to Cuba.

The union, which claims more than 600,000 members, asked Macron to support the shipment of oil and gas to the island nation and ensure, with the means available to the French State, the supply of food and medicine as well.

Binet also asked Macron to join the government of Mexico and other supportive countries in a diplomatic mediation effort between the United States and Cuba to end pressures described as unacceptable.

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