Cuba President defiant as US imposes new sanctions

President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez has responded to the latest United States sanctions imposed connected him and others, vowing to defy unit by the Trump administration.

He said the “threats” and the Treasury Department’s designation of Cuban leaders, organizations, and companies are aimed astatine “reinforcing the blockade and the conflict” betwixt Cuba and the U.S.

“This governmental blindness adds to the coercive measures applied successful caller weeks against our country, designed to harm the Cuban people,” the President wrote connected X.

Bermúdez declared that the “aggression and perversion” of the American authorities volition clash with Cuba’s “determination to look the worst-case scenarios and defy the imperial onslaught.”

In a connection connected Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said for astir 7 decades, the authorities successful Cuba has waged a run of political, ideological, and organization warfare against the U.S.

The Secretary announced the designation of 5 Cuban entities and 5 individuals “who prolong the regime’s malicious run to subvert and destabilize U.S. nationalist security.”

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