Italian parliamentarians from various parties condemned today. In impassioned speeches in the Chamber of Deputies. The genocidal measures recently approved by US President Donald Trump against Cuba.
On Tuesday afternoon, the denunciations of Trump’s executive order. Which imposes tariffs on nations that send oil to the archipelago, resonated strongly in that forum.
Legislator Marco Grimaldi, on behalf of the AVS, requested an urgent report from the Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani. Assessing the humanitarian consequences of this new US attack against Cuba. In order to ascertain the Italian government’s position on this serious violation of international law.
He referred to the US objective of “recolonizing” the “small socialist island that bothers them.” Which they are trying to achieve by strangling it and its people. Also stated that in the face of such actions, “we cannot remain silent.”
The deputy recalled the healthcare support provided by Cuban medical brigades to Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic. “In the darkest moment for our country,” demonstrating “that we can give not only what we have in excess, but everything, above all intelligence and heart.”
What is at stake now, “is not only paying that debt, but asserting, as they showed us. That humanity is one,” and therefore, “Cuba cannot be left alone,” Grimaldi reaffirmed.
For her part, Deputy Laura Boldrini, of the Democratic Party (PD), joined the AVS’s demand for a report. From the Foreign Minister regarding the extremely serious situation faced by the Cuban population as a consequence of the intensification of the economic blockade by the current US administration. Boldrini stated that, as a result of the fuel supply cuts. The island nation “lacks electricity for essential life activities. For schools, for food and pharmaceutical companies, for hospitals.”
This US policy against the Cuban people is an expression of “the law of the strongest, the law of the most cynical, the law of the most ruthless of the powerful,” Boldrini declared.
Francesco Silvestri, of the Five Star Movement (M5S), described Trump’s brutal attack against Cuba as repugnant. Turning fuel “into a weapon of murder and blackmail.” While also considering it an inhumane act to block all resources and threaten any other state that intends to help that country.
The Italian legislator concluded that the current US measure to try to prevent energy supplies to Cuba is a criminal act. Emphasized that “from this Parliament, we want to tell the Cuban people that we stand with you.”
With information from Prensa Latina
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