Cuban Foreign Ministry rejects defamatory campaign to justify the blockade
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba rejects in the strongest way the defamatory campaign against Cuba on human rights, launched on October 16, by the United States government at the headquarters of the United Nations.
As already warned, this action is part of the sequence of declarations against our country made in recent weeks by high-level officials of the United States government, which show growing hostility towards Cuba and the Cuban Revolution.
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