Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez denounced today the new coercive measures announced by the Donald Trump administration against the archipelago. Díaz-Canel rejected the U.S. excuse that Cuba represents a threat to that country and stressed that the blockade causes so much damage due to the “intimidating and arrogant behavior of the world’s greatest military power.”
The statements come amid a tightening of the Trump administration’s sanctions policy against Cuba.
The new unilateral and abusive measures by Washington seek to increase pressure on the island amidst the intensification of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade, and the energy embargo decreed at the end of January.
The sanctions specifically target foreign banks that cooperate with the Cuban government and impose further immigration restrictions, in addition to blocking those who operate or have operated in Cuba's energy, mining, defense or security sectors, or have provided material, financial or technological support to Havana or other individuals already "sanctioned".