Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel described on Tuesday as ”extreme cruelty” against Venezuela the executive order of US President Donald Trump, which extends the sanctions against the country to a total economic blockade.
It is a dispossession, a robbery, an extreme cruelty that we should not allow, the Cuban President tweeted, also reiterating solidarity with his counterpart, Nicolas Maduro, and the Venezuelan people.
Diaz-Canel added on Twitter that the ‘cowardly’ action against Venezuelan assets responds to Washington’s frustration ‘at the bravery and resistance of the Bolivarian Revolution.’
Trump signed yesterday an executive order that freezes all assets of the Venezuelan government in the US and prohibits transactions with that Executive unless there are specific exemptions.
The White House confirmed on Tuesday the measure authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to impose sanctions on people supporting the Maduro government, which Washington describes as illegitimate despite being the Venezuelan President being reelected in 2018 with 68% of the vote.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs assured the renewed interventionist actions show that the Trump administration and its allies are committed to the failure of the political dialogue process in Venezuela, which is taking place in Barbados with the accompaniment of the Norwegian authorities.
Meanwhile, President Maduro ratified the call for popular unity to confront the new US escalation.
Previously, Cuban President had denounced the attacks from the Brazilian head of State, Jair Bolsonaro, who – as Diaz- Canel said in his twitter- lies about the Cuban doctors in that country, and acts with servility towards the United States.
“President Bolsonaro lies again. His servility towards the #US is shameful. His vulgar slanders against #Cuba and the #MaisMedicos program will never deceive the brother Brazilian people, who know well about the nobility and humanity of Cuban medical cooperation. #SomosCuba, the Cuban president wrote on his Twitter account.
It was also Diaz-Canel’s response to Bolsonaro’s statement that the presence of Cuban healthcare experts in Brazil was aimed at ‘creating guerrilla groups’.
Since his electoral campaign, the Brazilian president has launched a frontal attack on the Mais Medicos program, in which Cuban physicians were rendering their services in Brazil’s neediest communities, with positive results in health indicators.
Bolsonaro attacks on Cuban doctors caused Cuba to cancel its participation in that program. (Periódico Digital Centroamericano y del Caribe)
Original Source: PL
