Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero today described the US Department of State report against Cuba as a pretext to continue the suffocation and aggression against the island.

"The State Department report against #Cuba is another step in the strategy designed by the US government to construct pretexts that allow it to continue its policy of suffocation and its escalation of aggression against the noble Cuban people," he wrote on the social network X.

Furthermore, he pointed out that Cuba is not a threat and that, on the contrary, it is the nation under threat, as was recently acknowledged at the UN.

"Cuba has always been the victim of multiple terrorist attacks organized and financed from the US," he expressed.

The Prime Minister recalled that the island and its revolutionary process have always been distinguished by their solidarity with all countries of the world, even under the impact of the cruelest embargo, unprecedentedly intensified by a criminal energy blockade.

"A dignified and heroic nation that has resisted and overcome maneuvers of all kinds has a legitimate right to defend its sovereignty. That is our firmest conviction," he added.