Havana, January 26 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel blasted the U.S. government's double standards in its attempts to blockade the Caribbean island and slander its government and people.

On Twitter, the President pointed out that "the empire's double standards have no limits," alluding to Washington's attempts to accuse Cuba of alleged violations of children's human rights. At the same time, there are flagrant violations in the United States itself.

In this regard, Díaz-Canel describes as "alarming" the report The State of America's Children 2021, published by the Child Defender Fund, a non-profit children's advocacy organization based in Washington with offices in California, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, and Texas.

That study notes that "American children continue to be criminalized at an alarming rate and disparities persist."

It notes that children in poverty, of color, with disabilities, mental health and substance abuse issues, subject to abuse and other violence, or from LGBTQ communities are pushed out of their schools and homes into the juvenile justice or adult criminal justice systems.

It lists, among many other facts, that in 2019, more than 696,000 minors were arrested in the U.S., and on a single night that year, 653 were incarcerated in adult prisons.

Also, the United States is the only country where a minor can be sentenced to life imprisonment.