Havana, Feb 4. - Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said today that the government of the Caribbean country, with the support of the people, will continue to defend the Revolution, independence and national sovereignty.
This was stated by the foreign minister on the social network X, a platform on which he denounced that the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, wants to visit Havana, “but first change our government. He will be left wanting.”
“He will not be able to know Cuba, a country about which he knows absolutely nothing. He was not invited,” he said.
In his message on the platform, Rodriguez ratified Cuba's will to defend its sovereignty, while recalling that 13 US presidents and secretaries of state have assumed power since the revolutionary triumph in 1959.
On January 30, the government of Donald Trump approved the reissue of the List of Restricted Entities of Cuba, which prohibits financial transactions with Cuban state companies, in addition to denying them resources.
Ten days earlier, the new US administration revoked the decision of its predecessor Joe Biden to remove the Caribbean island from the illegal list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism, a step criticized by a large part of the international community.
In this regard, Cuban leaders affirmed that they will act with firmness and dignity in the face of the outrage that these new measures represent.
The Caribbean nation also sought support from the international community "to stop, denounce and accompany our people in the face of the new and dangerous escalation of aggression" by the northern country "that has only just begun."
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the announcement is possibly also the prelude to other measures that the team in charge of the Cuba issue in this government has designed since 2017 to be able to further tighten, gratuitously and irresponsibly, the siege against the island in search of new and avoidable scenarios of deterioration and bilateral confrontation. (PL) (Photo: Taken from the Internet)