Miguel Díaz-Canel criticized the “unilateral” and “coercive” actions of the United States against seven countries, including Cuba, at the United Nations on Tuesdayin a speech in which he avoided specifically mentioning Russia, an ally of the Cuban regime that was heavily sanctioned for its invasion of Ukraine.
During his speech to the United Nations General Assembly The president repeated his rhetoric against Washington’s sanctionswhich he accused of “isolating sovereign states and weakening them economically.”
“(The measures) now also affect Venezuela and Nicaragua and have been the prelude to invasions and (the) overthrow of governments before and after.” Things are uncomfortable in the Middle East. “We reject the coercive and unilateral measures imposed on countries such as Zimbabwe, Syria, the Democratic Republic of Korea and Iran, as well as many other countries whose populations suffer the negative effects of these measures,” Díaz-Canel said on the official website by Cubadebate.
The Governor He also insisted that “Cuba is the country that has suffered from unilateral coercive measures for the longest time.”
Díaz-Canel spoke on behalf of the 77+China group, which Havana will chair pro tempore in 2023.
He reiterated that during the recent summit of this group held on the island, its members “called for no longer deferrable changes in the unjust, irrational and abusive international economic order, which has, year after year, exacerbated the enormous inequalities between a minority of very developed nations and a majority that cannot overcome the euphemism of developing countries.”
“We don’t ask for alms or beg for favors. We call for a profound transformation of the current international financial architecture.” because it is deeply unfair, anachronistic and dysfunctional,” he said.
Díaz-Canel’s words come just hours after it was announced that the Joe Biden administration was about to ease restrictions imposed on the Cuban regime to allow greater financial support from the United States for small businesses, following an alleged Founded to promote the private sector, Havana was sold as a gesture of opening up, precisely in order to receive foreign financing and concessions from Washington.
According to a Bloomberg report, the US will announce regulatory changes this week aimed at “boosting the island’s corporate sector”.
Although he repeated the “blockade” mantra whenever he could and blamed the embargo for Cubans’ deprivations, Since 2020, Cuban authorities have made record purchases of food and agricultural products from the United States.
Although Díaz-Canel and the official press remain silent about it, This country is now the sixth largest country in the world with the highest volume of exports to the islandas shown in the Cuban Statistical Yearbook for 2022, with figures published by the state-run National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI).
According to this document, the northern neighbor exported products worth $391,296,000 to the island last year, the highest in six years.
With numbers like that, The US was placed above countries in the Latin American region with stronger political ties to Havanasuch as Brazil ($377,815,000 exports in 2022), Argentina ($347,514,000) and Mexico (347,801,000).
Since U.S. sales to Cuba began in December 2001, the total purchase amount is $7,063,985,829.according to the Cuba-US Economic and Trade Council.
All exports are authorized despite the embargo under the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act (TSREEA) of 2000, which was passed by the George W. Bush administration and which Havana has relied on continuously since late 2001.