12 July 2021 |
Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Cuban Foreign Minister, on Monday repudiated the words of Joe Biden, president of the United States, related to the riots that occurred this Sunday in Cuba.
During his intervention, as part of a television appearance by the highest Cuban authorities from the Palace of the Revolution, Rodríguez Parrilla said that Biden asked that they listen to the Cuban people and alleviate their needs.
The US president would do well to listen to the Cuban people in their call for the end of the blockade, the foreign minister said, referring to the economic, commercial and financial siege that the United States has imposed on his country almost 60 years ago.
And it should also address the claims of its own citizens and lift the 243 measures promoted by the previous administration (Donald Trump), he said.
Rodríguez Parrilla also emphasized that Washington could eliminate the measures applied during the COVID-19 pandemic, since the virus (SARS-CoV-2) has been an ally in the resurgence of the White House sanctions.
He added that Biden could also stop using the means of repression with which the police repress Afro-descendant citizens and journalists of that nation.
The Cuban diplomat denounced that since June 15 unconventional war actions have increased with the positioning on social networks of the SOS CUBA campaign, aimed at boycotting the United Nations vote against the blockade.
I also accuse the United States government that the company in charge of generating this label received in recent days a certificate to act with state funds and I request that they confirm or deny that the main political operators have received financing from that State as part of the war. unconventional towards our country, he added.
According to Rodríguez Parrilla, these groups actively used labels, robots and automated trolls in the most recent operation against Cuba and despite the denunciations of these accounts on the social network Twitter, the North American company did not apply its own regulations to prevent this type of attack. publications on their platforms.
He also explained that the physical geolocation systems were altered, because the vast majority of the user accounts of this campaign were outside of Cuba and not within the nation, as indicated by this digital site.
Rodríguez Parrilla meant that despite all his country, he arouses enormous international solidarity and the world has reacted with great respect and trust for the flawless trajectory of Cuba, attached to the truth, with the people and for the people.
