Mexican president reiterates rejection of U.S. blockade against Cuba

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum reiterated on Wednesday her rejection of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States government on Cuba and said that these sieges harm the people.

“They know our position regarding Cuba.  Economic blockades do not harm governments, they harm the people, and dialogue must always be put above all else,” said the president during her usual press conference, this time from the state of Querétaro.

“It is in our constitution, in the definition of the principles of foreign policy, but it is something that is important to develop in all senses.  Closing the door and not dialoguing, I believe, is never the option.  The construction of peace requires permanent dialogue,” he stressed.

The day before, the president of the island, Miguel Díaz-Canel, rejected the statements of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who called Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela "enemies of humanity."

During a visit to Costa Rica, as part of a tour of Central America, the U.S. secretary of state accused those three countries of being the cause of the current migration crisis.

"The shamelessness once again taking hold of the cynical politicians of the United States," stated the Cuban dignitary in X, where he affirmed that it is proven that the migratory exodus on the island is proportional to the hardening of the blockade policy of that northern power.

He pointed out that the siege deprives the Cuban people of essential goods, and warned about the danger for humanity of neo-fascism promoted by Washington.

Enemies of humanity are those who resist blockades without abandoning solidarity with other peoples or those who apply the blockade trampling on international laws? The empire, with its expansionist appetite and its futile pretension of governing the world, is the enemy of humanity, he stressed.