On the social media platform X, the island’s foreign minister noted that this hostility “is nothing new: it is an extension of measures adopted since the first term of the current US president” (Donald Trump).

He also outlined the intent behind these punitive measures, which aim to target the Caribbean nation’s main sources of foreign revenue.

In this regard, they seek to “reduce our government’s capacity to provide basic goods and services” and, in doing so—he added—”provoke public frustration, social unrest, and a change in the constitutional order,” the minister stated.

The head of Cuban diplomacy revealed that, in the banking and financial sector alone, key coercive measures include the imposition of 24 fines by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and other agencies.

The OFAC penalties against financial, insurance, travel, technology, and logistics entities from third countries total more than $4.014 billion for alleged violations of the blockade against Cuba.

Rodriguez also remembered the re-inclusion of Cuba on the list of alleged state sponsors of terrorism in 2021 and 2025, as well as the ban preventing the entities FINCIMEX and AIS from processing remittances starting September 24, 2020.

The island’s Foreign Minister also cited, in his denunciation, the inclusion of Banco Financiero Internacional on the List of Restricted Cuban Entities on January 1, 2021, and the imposition of sanctions against financial institutions linked to GAESA on June 23, 2026.

“Cuba is not a threat; the blockade is a threat,” declared Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez.

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