HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel says measures recently announced by the US government are limited and restrictive and do not affect the central core of the US blockade against the country or other US high-pressure policy sanctions.
In a statement posted to social media, the Cuban head of state said the US moves do not eliminate or change the coercive measures affecting the Cuban economy and public services, which have a hard impact on the wellbeing of the Cuban people.
“The fact that such measures aim at a segment of the people reveals the historic intention to break the unity of Cubans,” said Diaz-Canel.
He also said that the US concern about the development of the Cuban non-state sector is not genuine policy. This is in tune with a subversive design marked by well-known strategies, such as manipulating and using the non-state sector as a potential agent for change in the country.
“As far as the strengthened US blockade continues to affect the Cuban people, the United States will not be able to prevent the world condemnation against that genocide using no bombs but aimed at devastating the admirable resistance of Cuba,” Diaz-Canel noted.
He added that the Cuban government will continue to promote the increasing integration of all local economic actors, a milestone for the country’s development and the wellbeing of all Cubans.
Earlier this week, the US government announced a series of measures that, according to a release by the US Office for Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), aim to favor the private sector in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean country.
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