Havana, July 16, 2025. The deputies of the National Assembly of the People’s Power of the Republic of Cuba reject and denounce the U.S. Presidential Memorandum of June 30, 2025, which reaffirms the responsibility of the United States government in the tightening of the economic, commercial, and financial war, as a means to achieve its imperialist and colonialist goal of seizing control of Cuba.
The aggression of the United States against Cuba violates International Law and multiple UN resolutions. It also violates the right to self-determination, by virtue of which the Cuban people have sovereignly established our own national project.
The current shortages and the major challenges faced by the Cuban economy in its recovery, growth, and development are the direct result of the extreme strengthening of the blockade, which, especially since 2017, has been endowed with a qualitatively more harmful effect. The scarcities of food, medicines, fuel, and electricity that the Cuban people endure today would not exist had this genocidal economic war not been prolonged and intensified.
The prohibition of U.S. citizens from traveling to Cuba, the persecution of fuel supplies, the obstruction of remittances, the measures against third-country governments for employing Cuban medical services to assist their populations, the pressures exerted on commercial and financial entities around the world to prevent their relations with Cuba, the encouragement of lawsuits in U.S. courts against investors in our country, and the unjust and arbitrary inclusion of Cuba on the list of States allegedly sponsoring terrorism—with its disastrous consequences for the Cuban economy—are shamelessly presented as actions taken for the “benefit of the Cuban people.”
In the face of such actions, we reaffirm to legislators and friends from all latitudes that the political will of our people will not be broken nor subdued by the hegemonic dictates of the United States government.
Faithful to our history and loyal to our legitimate hopes, the dignified women and men of Cuba are aware of the extraordinary challenges of the present. We shall confront—united—these and other aggressive maneuvers of the U.S. government and the corrupt anti-Cuban clique that promotes them, without ever renouncing our determination to build a society where dignity, justice, and well-being will always remain the heritage of all.
(Cubaminrex–ANPP)