Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister, reported on her Facebook profile about a letter sent by the Black Caucus of the United States Congress. Demanding that the administration of President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio end the oil blockade imposed on Cuba.
The statement, signed by the Caucus’s chair, Yvette D. Clarke, emphasized that the policy implemented since January has worsened the humanitarian crisis in Cuba. With increased infant mortality, food shortages, and difficulties accessing medical services.
“Under the administration’s oil blockade and the tightening of sanctions, Cubans are dying,” Clarke wrote in the letter.
“The New York Times has reported that, as a result of the sanctions, the infant mortality rate in Cuba has more than doubled since 2018,” she added.
Also the letter emphasized that hospitals face shortages of antibiotics, medications, and equipment. While vaccines are lost due to a lack of electricity for refrigeration. And doctors are forced to resort to manual procedures during power outages.
The Caucus expressed concern about the situation in the provinces of Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba, Granma, Holguin, and Las Tunas. Also where the energy crisis has worsened following Hurricane Melissa.
“It is enough! The Congressional Black Caucus will not stand idly by while this administration continues this barbaric policy. That generates unimaginable human suffering in Cuba,” Clarke stated in the letter.
The parliamentary group demanded the immediate lifting of sanctions and access for the Cuban people to the basic resources necessary to sustain life on the island.
With information from the Cuban News Agency
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