“Our people already know the cruelty behind the actions of the US government and the viciousness with which it is capable of attacking us,” the head of state declared via his social media account.

He added that Cubans understand, “as does the rest of the world,” that Washington’s measures against the Caribbean nation are “a unilateral aggression against a nation and a population whose only ambition is to live in peace, masters of their own destiny and without the pernicious interference of US imperialism.”

“The additional economic sanctions announced worsen the already difficult situation faced by our country, just as they strengthen our determination to defend the Homeland, the Revolution, and Socialism,” Diaz-Canel declared.

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