"The US president has made new threatening statements against Cuba; and the Treasury Department has added new names of Cuban leaders, organizations, and companies to an illegitimate sanctions list," denounced Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, this Thursday via his Twitter account.
Regarding this new episode, an expression of the White House's growing hostility toward the island, the Cuban president asserted that it is aimed at "strengthening the blockade and the conflict between Cuba and the United States."
Furthermore, he stated: "This political blindness adds to the coercive measures applied in recent weeks against our country, designed to harm the Cuban people."
Díaz-Canel warned that "the aggressiveness and perversion of the U.S. government will clash with our resolve to confront the worst-case scenarios and resist the imperial onslaught."
For his part, Political Bureau member and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla expressed on his Facebook profile that "the vile inclusion of President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, members of his family, as well as Cuban institutions, civil society organizations, and companies on an illegitimate and unilateral list by the U.S. government, is the latest example of the U.S. interventionist plan to portray Cuba as a threat to U.S. national security."
The Cuban Foreign Minister asserted that "every U.S. action aimed at creating a scenario of conflict between the two countries is destined to fail."
"Every threat against Cuba’s independence and sovereignty will be met with even greater unity and determination from our people," he added.
