Cuba condemns U.S. aggression

Cuba’s Foreign Ministry’s director general for the United States, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, warned that with its position, the White House does nothing but remind Latin Americans that the Monroe Doctrine and its hegemonic projection are still alive today.

Mike Pence, vice president of the U.S., during a May 7 speech before the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, D.C., attacked Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, and called for “regional pressure” against these countries for being a “dark cloud of tyranny.”

According to Fernández de Cossío, Vice President Pence “lies” when attributing a long-standing commitment on the continent to democracy and freedom by the U.S.

In declarations made on television, he also condemned the speech stating that the United States purports to “support the people of Cuba.” He denounced the representative of a country that has intensified the blockade aimed at stifling the Island’s economy in order for its population to surrender to hunger and misery.

Fernández de Cossío added that Pence’s intervention occurred before an organization, the OAS, known for supporting the most horrendous crimes on the continent, ranging from coups and brutal dictatorships to assassinations, torture and disappearances of persons. For the Cuban diplomat, it is simply a new attempt by the United States to apply old recipes designed to impede the development and independence of the nations of the hemisphere.

He stated that the U.S. fails to realize that Latin America has changed, and that U.S. policies will ultimately fail. He added that Cuba will continue to build an independent, sovereign, socialist, democratic and sustainable country, and will also continue to support the construction in solidarity of our America, respecting the diversity of its peoples.

(Taken from Cubadebate and translated by Progreso Weekly.)