Another act of aggression by the United States against Cuba. Image: file/MC
by Maria Josefina Arce
From the moment he assumed the presidency of the United States on January 20, Donald Trump has lashed out against Cuba. His actions against the Caribbean nation and its people, already subjected for more than six decades to an inhumane U.S. blockade strongly condemned by the international community, were not long in coming.
The new measures announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, paradoxically of Cuban origin, intensify the economic war against the largest of the Antilles and further impede its socio-economic progress.
As the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs pointed out, this new act of aggression by the United States shows once again the true, cruel and merciless objective of these and so many other measures of encirclement and suffocation being applied against Cuba with the aim of domination.
In fact, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned that these actions could be the prelude to other measures that this government's team in charge of the Cuban issue has been designing since 2017 to be able to further tighten, gratuitously and irresponsibly, the siege against our country in search of new and avoidable scenarios of deterioration and bilateral confrontation.
What is certain is that in this second term, the current tenant of the White House will resume his harsh policy against the Cuban people that he established when he occupied the presidency for the first time from 2017 to 2021.
A policy that proved its genocidal character. Let's not forget that when the world was experiencing a health emergency due to COVID 19, the Trump administration tightened the economic siege against the Caribbean nation.
Cuba has been denied access to medicines and medical supplies that could mean the difference between life and death.
Now, as last time, it has reactivated the controversial Title Three of the Helms-Burton Act, approved by the US Congress in 1996, which codifies the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by Washington and emphasizes its extraterritorial nature.
This section opens the possibility of filing a lawsuit in U.S. courts against individuals and entities, even from third countries, who invest in Cuban territory in properties nationalized after the triumph of the revolution in January 1959.
Cuban-American organizations, legislators, business groups, religious leaders and solidarity associations have questioned Washington's stance against Havana, which violates international law and seeks to curb investments in Cuban territory.
The current administration of Donald Trump is once again taking criminal measures against Cuba, which have been widely condemned at the international level and which, as denounced by Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel, are wrapped in lies in an attempt to justify the blockade against the Cuban people.
