The First Secretary of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez today highlighted the understanding of the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), on the objective and impact of the U.S. blockade against Cuba.
"Few people in the world understand the objective and impact of the genocidal blockade against Cuba, as Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose management in favor of all the peoples of Our America is only comparable to his impressive work of transformation of Mexico," the president wrote through his account on the social network X.
In his message, the Cuban head of state posted a video fragment of one of López Obrador's regular press conferences in which he rejects U.S. attempts at domination through blockades such as those exercised against Cuba and Venezuela.
By what right do you blockade a country, AMLO asked, and affirmed that such a measure is a violation of international law and human rights.
"Imagine; I blockade you so that your people do not have even the basics, they rebel, they remove you as a government," and thus facilitate the domination of that country, he explained.
No nation has the right to subjugate another, said AMLO, who affirmed that the intensification of these unilateral measures are causing an increase in emigration from Cuba and Venezuela.
The blockade against Cuba was formalized 62 years ago, when then President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 3447 which decreed a total "embargo" of trade against this Caribbean nation, with the justification of the rapprochement of this country with the socialist community.