On his X (formerly Twitter) account, the head of the Cuban delegation to the General Debate of the High-Level Segment of the Assembly’s 81st session—held in New York—expressed his appreciation for the calls to end the energy blockade and the secondary sanctions weighing on the island.

  In another message on the same platform, the Foreign Minister condemned the new “wave of blockade measures against the Cuban people” imposed by the United States government.

  “Among these, they put an end to people-to-people exchanges and further restrict academic and research exchanges,” noted Rodriguez, who is also a deputy to the National Assembly (Parliament) and a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.

  He explained that “prohibitions preventing private Cuban entities from conducting direct business with the United States and US banks are being reinforced, in addition to the ban on ‘U-turn’ transactions.”

  He added that indirect operations with entities on the State Department’s unilateral list of restricted entities are also prohibited. “Less than 24 hours ago, the Secretary of State said that ‘Cuba has already fallen,’ yet it turns out that additional measures now need to be applied,” he said.

  These new blockade measures aim to hinder the ongoing process of economic transformation, the Foreign Minister warned on the microblogging platform.

“Both the public and private sectors are being openly attacked—the very sectors that some U.S. officials claim they want to help develop,” emphasized the minister, who stressed that “it was evident that Cuba is not a threat, but the blockade is.”

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