President Miguel Díaz-Canel has once again accused the US and its sanctions against the island of causing the current crisis in the country and politicians and activists in Florida of “heating up the streets.”
Thousands of people demonstrated on Sunday in the streets of several cities in Cuba against the Government of Miguel Díaz-Canel after several days of electrical blackouts and delays in the distribution of basic foods. Those attending the marches asked for “current and food”, while they denounced being hungry.
Diaz-Canel He reacted through his social networks to point out that “several people have expressed their dissatisfaction with the situation of electrical service and food distribution”, a context that “the enemies of the revolution are trying to take advantage of, for destabilizing purposes.”
This Monday he again accused USA 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 Miamiamong them Rosa María Payá, daughter of the late Cuban opposition leader Oswaldo Payá, have asked the US president, Joe Biden, and the international community to stop being “complicit in the repressors of the Cuban people” and to increase “the “pressure on the generals who are in power in Cuba so that they have to submit to the sovereign will of the citizens.”
“The United States supports the Cuban people in the exercise of their right to peaceful assembly,” he expressed this Monday on social networks. Brian Nicholsthe person in charge of the State Department 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 citizens.”
The Undersecretary of State has sent this message after the Cuban Foreign Ministry summoned the United States Chargé d’Affaires in Havana this Monday, Benjamin Ziffto protest Washington’s “interference behavior.”
The Foreign Ministry condemned the message published on social networks by the United States Embassy on the island in which it urged the Cuban Government to “respect the human rights of the protesters and address the legitimate needs of the Cuban people.”
Three complicated years
Cuba has been immersed in a crisis for more than three years. serious economic crisis with shortages of basic products, rampant inflation, prolonged daily blackouts and increasing dollarization, which has caused a unprecedented migration and strong social discontent, according to several agencies.
The blackouts have worsened in the last two months due to breakdowns in obsolete Soviet-made plants and a lack of fuel, with power outage rates of up to 45% at times of greatest demand. These failures add up to more than 10 hours a day in many provinces of the country.
The covid-19 pandemic and the tightening of US sanctions They have finished finishing off an economy already hit by decades of US economic bloc on the island.
In November of last year, lThe UN General Assembly condemned the US embargo on Cuba for the 31st consecutive year. 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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