The Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, denounced this Monday the impacts on the population and migration, as well as the extraterritoriality of the United States blockade against the Island.
In an interview with Cuban state television, the Cuban president blamed what he called increased migration due to the complex economic crisis that the country is going through on the maximum pressure policy of the United States Government, which induces an irregular, "illegal" flow. unsafe and disorderly."
According to the Cuban president, "excessive migratory flows are situations that have occurred cyclically that always have to do with when the United States Government tenses the situation," he stressed.
Díaz-Canel criticized the US Government's strategy of making the new non-state sector an enemy of the Government of Cuba and exemplified: "now when a group, with the best intentions, went to an event in the United States that is supposed that it was business, a commercial event, of exchange, not political, and they politicized it, and for some of them they put a terrorist at a dinner. In that sense, he asked himself "Who politicized that, those of the MSMEs, those of Cuba, the Cuban Government? The United States politicized it."
In his speech, the Cuban president explained that "with Trump's measures that, among others, were also aimed at creating an unfavorable situation to seek social unrest" consular services in Cuba were canceled.
He denounced that the United States Government "has taken other measures to close our tourism income, such as recently the automatic visa, the visa for European citizens: if they visit Cuba they take away the visa with which they have the facility to enter the United States." ".
The Cuban president emphasized that the relations between Cuba and the United States are "relations with tremendous asymmetry and where they are marked, above all, by the Government of the United States towards Cuba as a policy of maximum pressure, as a policy of genocide, like a policy of strangulation, and it causes all those things.
Likewise, the Cuban president asked himself "When is the United States going to have to respond for the violation of human rights that constitutes the genocidal blockade that it has applied to Cuba for more than 60 years?"