05 August 2021
Cuba reiterates its right to defend its integrity and sovereignty.
Cuba is a small island developing state that faces the longest and most incomprehensive system of unilateral restrictive measures applied against any country: the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States for more than 60 years, which currently has caused severe damages in the country's economy.
Added to this situation are the consequences generated by the Covid-19 pandemic, whose effects have been deliberately and opportunistically used by the US government to reinforce sanctions for political purposes and cause hardship among the Cuban people.
Cuba denounces that it is being currently the victim of an operation planned from accounts and networks in the cyberspace, financed by the United States to promote false videos and fake news as well as terrorist actions against the Cuban people and institutions. They are only encouraging this small groups of antisocial people who do not represent the interest of the majority of Cubans living in the island, to create social disorder, and a false image of the real Cuban people. This has been denounced with evidences by our authorities and other countries in the world.
The behavior of this anti-Cuban campaign operation easily denotes that the protests and acts of violence were done with the objective to denigrate the historical prestige of our country before the international community to justify a foreign intervention saying that it is humanitarian, when the whole world is aware of the upsurge of criminal measures of the blockade even in this difficult times we are facing Covid 19.
This political and media operation orchestrated and financed from the United States has failed. It did not receive the support of the vast majority of Cubans, on the contrary, the majority of our people have taken the streets to defend their revolution and confront vandalism and violent attacks on people and institutions, even to children hospitals, promoted from abroad to create an image of chaos in our peaceful country.
Any attempt to alter the peace of the Cuban citizens will have a proportional response within the framework of our laws, in strict accordance with international laws.
The US government has a high responsibility for the events, not only because they are the result of years of economic warfare, but also because they are doing a maximum pressure policy with more than 243 measures in addition to the blockade.
US spokesmen and politicians, including President Joe Biden, have expressed themselves with marked cynicism about this situation, referring to an alleged intention to "help" the Cuban people. If they have a sincere interest in alleviating our difficulties, what the United States government would have to do immediately is lift the economic, commercial and financial blockade and repeal the measures imposed during the government of former President Donald Trump and that the current President Joe Biden executes in full, despite the international rejection reiterated more recently in the United Nations General Assembly, with a vote of 184 in favor of its lifting.
We call on the states to respect international law, the purposes and principles of the United Nations charter and the commitments and legal instruments signed in the field of digital communication to prevent acts of aggression.
Cuba is and will continue to be a country of peace, which promotes solidarity to all the people of the world, our actions show by itself and will continue offering love and well-being in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, carrying humanism and altruism everywhere.
Cuba has always developed diplomacy of peace, cooperation and mutual respect, and we will continue to do so. We share what we have; we give health and wellbeing to our friends in the world. For this, Cuba will maintain its compromise of cooperation.
In this moment thousands of Cuban professionals are giving services all around the world. In Africa for example, we have today, a thousand cooperators in different sectors.
Cuba reiterates its right to defend its integrity and sovereignty against any foreign intervention.
Cuban embassy