President Miguel Díaz-Canel has once again accused the US and sanctions on the island of causing the country’s current crisis, and politicians and activists in Florida of “warming up the streets”.
Thousands of people demonstrated on Sunday in the streets of different cities in Cuba against the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel after several days of power outages and delays in the distribution of basic food. Those attending the marches asked for “power and food” while denouncing that they were hungry.
Diaz Canel He responded through his social networks to point out that “several people have expressed their dissatisfaction with the situation of electricity supply and food distribution,” a context that “the enemies of the revolution are trying to take advantage of, for destabilizing purposes. .”
This Monday he accused again US and its sanctions against the island to cause the current crisis in the country and politicians and activists in Florida to “warm up the streets”.
While, members of the Cuban exile in Miamiincluding Rosa María Payá, daughter of the late Cuban opposition leader Oswaldo Payá, have asked US President Joe Biden and the international community to stop being ‘complicit with the oppressors of the Cuban people’ and to ‘increase the pressure’. on the generals in power in Cuba, so that they must submit to the sovereign will of the citizens.”
“The United States stands with the Cuban people in the exercise of their right to peaceful assembly,” he said on social networks on Monday. Brian Nicholsthe person responsible for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Latin America.
Nichols has also said that “the Cuban government will not be able to meet the needs of its people until it embraces democracy and the rule of law and respects the rights of its citizens.”
The Assistant Secretary of State sent this message after the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the American chargé d’affaires to Havana last Monday. Benjamin Ziffto protest Washington’s “interference behavior.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the message published on social networks by the US embassy on the island, in which it urged the Cuban government to “respect the human rights of the demonstrators and meet the legitimate needs of the Cuban people”.
Three complicated years
Cuba has been in crisis for more than three years. serious economic crisis with shortages of basic products, rampant inflation, prolonged daily blackouts and increasing dollarization, leading to a global crisis unprecedented migration and strong social discontent, according to various authorities.
Power outages have worsened in the past two months due to breakdowns at aging Soviet-made factories and a lack of fuel, with power outage rates as high as 45% during times of peak demand. In many provinces of the country, these outages last more than ten hours a day.
The Covid-19 pandemic and the tightening of US sanctions They have finished winding down an economy that has been hit by the American economic bloc on the island for decades.
In November last year, lThe UN General Assembly has condemned the US embargo on Cuba for the 31st year in a row. The resolution was adopted by an overwhelming majority of members, with the US and Israel voting against and Ukraine abstaining.
Source: EITB
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