Díaz-Canel Denounces U.S. "Genocide" Against Cuba

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, denounced the impact of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade, exacerbated by the energy siege imposed by the United States against Cuba.

The leader stated on his Facebook profile that "without the genocide in Gaza having completely ceased, there is an attempt to repeat it against more than nine million Cubans, through an economic blockade and an energy siege that have pushed the suffering of the Cuban people to extreme levels."

Díaz-Canel specified that "Cuba has only received one fuel ship in the last seven months," which has caused economic and social consequences he described as "humanly unbearable."

The President asserted: "We are witnessing the most extensive and profound expression of a ruthless effort by the planet's greatest power to disconnect the economy of a small island state from the rest of the world's economy."

The leader questioned: "Does anyone truly believe that this plan of collective suffocation is merely a surgical strike against the government and its leaders?" He emphasized that the facts demonstrate objectives aimed at triggering a social explosion and dividing and striking the Cuban people to their core.

Díaz-Canel compared the United States' strategy to Valeriano Weyler's Reconcentration policy, which "through starvation, decimated the Cuban population at the end of the 19th century," and recalled that "even then, we defeated their empire," referring to the tyrannical representative of the Spanish Empire and his macabre plan—a precursor to the Nazi concentration camps of World War II.

He concluded that "this is the history we come from. And so is the will to prevail," referencing the historical resistance of the Cuban people against external aggression.