Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel received US Senator Ron Wyden here today, with whom he discussed the current state of bilateral relations and the impact of Washington's blockade on the island's population.
Díaz-Canel confirmed to the Democratic congressman from Oregon the willingness to work together to improve bilateral relations for the benefit of the Cuban and American peoples.
In a message posted on Twitter, the Cuban president said that he explained to Wyden the impact that the extreme measures of the United States government have had on the Cuban population.
In 2021, Wyden together with a group of congressmen from his party (Democrats) presented legislation to end the blockade imposed by Washington on Cuba, which he considered a failure.
In February of that year, the senator along with other colleagues sent a letter to Secretary of the State Department Antony Blinken and the government of Joseph Biden urging an end to Donald Trump's failed and counterproductive policies against the Caribbean island.
In that letter, Wyden asked to reverse the coercive measures, remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and engage diplomatically with Cuba.