President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Friday reaffirmed Cuba’s will to resist the US aggressions, in the face of a new action by Washington to restrict remittances to the island.
The president described the suspension on Wednesday, by the Western Union remittance company, of those financial transfers to Cuba, except those issued from the United States as another measure against the Cuban people.
This is how the empire performs, with total arrogance and contempt, but nobody’s going to stop us, Diaz-Canel posted on his Twitter account, where he put a link with a note about the issue published by Granma newspaper on Friday.
This is measure 191 the administration of Donald Trump has imposed on the Cuban people with the aim of provoking discouragement and despair, so that this results in holding the revolutionary authorities responsible for the effects caused by its unilateral measures, Granma stated.
That company had announced last month it could lose its ability to operate transactions destined for the island ‘due to unique challenges of the service that sends remittances from countries outside the United States to Cuba.’
As part of Washington’s measures, Cuba has suffered fuel shortages since September 2019 when the normal cycle of tanker operations broke down, as a result of the US harassment against shipping and insurance companies.
Along these lines, the White House has implemented sanctions to Cuban companies such as Cubametales and Corporacion Panamericana S.A, for their purchases of energy carriers, among other actions.
Last week Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel reiterated US failure on distorting alleged health incidents of US diplomats in Havana.
The president shared on his Twitter account an article issued in the national daily Granma that collects the results of a scientific event arranged by the Academy of Sciences of Cuba to address these incidents again.
The pieces of evidence presented in the quotation ‘clearly rejects the theories put forward by the State Department as a pretext for the backward movement in bilateral relations with Cuba,’ according to the information.
In this regard, the director of the Neurosciences Center of Cuba Mitchell Valdes stated there is no evidence of damage to the brain networks of diplomats allegedly attacked.
‘It is not possible to support the idea that the same illness caused by an external agent allegedly occurred in Cuba in a number of people,’ added Dr. Valdes, who advocated collaboration to clarify these incidents.
On August 2017, the State Department alleged that several US diplomats were affected by an alleged hearing loss.
In response, the United States expelled 15 Cuban diplomats from Washington and withdrew most of theirs from Havana; then, he closed the consulate on Cuba.
The Cuban authorities reiterated from the outset that there was no evidence of any kind of act against US diplomats in Havana.
They denounced that the US uses that issue as a pretext to impose measures against bilateral relations, and all this time there has only been speculation and little information and cooperation.
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