President Miguel Díaz-Canel demanded in Tegucigalpa, during the CELAC Summit. The immediate cessation of unilateral sanctions against developing nations. Considering that they violate principles and norms of international law.
The president spoke on Wednesday at the high-level segment of the IX Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC by its initials in Spanish). Which brings together representatives of the 33 member countries of that political coordination mechanism in Honduras.
Before his counterparts from a dozen states, including Honduran President Xiomara Castro. Host of the meeting, Díaz-Canel accused the United States government of applying criminal methods. Which seek to “throw the people against their governments.”
In his opinion, these coercive measures have been spreading as a practice that contaminates and rarefies international economic relations. Given the almost absolute power of the empire over the world.
Also the global financial institutions, he warned. Cuba knows in depth the cost of that policy. Which has been brutally hardened in recent years, he said. In this line, the president said that the U.S. administration continues to be determined to suffocate the Cuban people.
Provoke political instability with its cruel and illegal economic war and precipitate the overthrow by force of its government and the constitutional order. He said that Washington’s unfounded decision to incorporate Cuba again into its unilateral list of countries sponsoring terrorism. Severely impacts development aspirations and serves as a pretext to intensify the siege against Cuba, with extraterritorial effects.
Added to this, he continued, is the infamous campaign against Cuban medical cooperation programs in more than 50 nations. Launching fallacious accusations against this solidarity work and its significant impact on the lives of millions of people in Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States.
He said that restrictions on the visas of anyone on the planet who supports or benefits from such programs constitutes vulgar blackmail. A scandalous and flagrant threat and an unjustified aggression.
“This new pressure not only aims to punish Cuba and the altruistic and humanistic vocation of its professionals. But also reflects an absolute disregard for the health of the peoples and communities that receive the benefits of Cuban medical services,” he insisted.
For the Cuban dignitary, it is naive to think that the U.S. government, instead of soldiers and weapons. It can send doctors under the same conditions of solidarity and preference as Cuba does.
He ratified Havana’s willingness to maintain that cooperation agreed with each country. Through legal agreements, which has been defended with firmness and transparency, particularly by the sister nations of the Caribbean, he praised.
He thanked CELAC for its historical support for the lifting of the illegal economic blockade, commercial and financial of the United States against Cuba. And the demand for the exclusion of the country from the spurious list of States alleged sponsors of terrorism.
“Only unity can save us. Let us no longer delay the integration dreamed of and fought for, from Bolívar to the present day, by the bravest sons of Our America,” he concluded.
With information from Prensa Latina
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernández
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