In a statement, the organizations of the social and popular movement, united in the Rafael Aguinada Carranza Inter-Union Coordinating Committee (CIRAC), recalled that for more than six decades the blockade has sought to subjugate the Cuban people through hunger, disease, and desperation.

This criminal blockade, maintained and intensified by successive U.S. administrations, also constitutes a flagrant violation of international law, the Charter of the United Nations, and the most basic principles of coexistence among nations, the statement emphasizes.

Cirac denounced the blockade as not a policy of diplomatic pressure, but rather an act of economic warfare that prevents Cuba from accessing medicines, food, fuel, technology, and international financing.

It is the main cause of shortages, blackouts, and the material exhaustion of a people who, despite everything, remain standing with revolutionary dignity, he declared.

At the same time, Cirac condemned the escalating warmongering of the U.S. empire against Cuba and specified that in recent months, the United States government has intensified its threats of direct military aggression.

To this end, he continued, it activates disinformation mechanisms regarding alleged threats to national security; deploys harassment actions in Cuban waters and airspace; and uses mercenaries and foreign financing agencies, disguised as humanitarian aid, aimed at destabilizing the legitimate government of Cuba from within.

Faced with this imperialist offensive, we call for the unity of the peoples of Latin America and the world in defense of Cuba.

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