The Helms-Burton Act represents a strong obstacle to any attempt to improve relations between Cuba and the United States, warned a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during a parliamentary session on Thursday.
Cuba's representative before the UNESCO Executive Council, Oscar Leon, denounced the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States. According to a communiqué, the Cuban official pointed out that it is 'the most unfair, severe and longest system of unilateral sanctions that has been enforced on any country'.
Trump's argument is that the December agreement violates blockade laws, because the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) is a government entity. He is lying, as he has done in his long career of fake news. The FCB is recognized as a national federation by all international sports organizations, not as a representative of the Cuban government.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Tuesday that people in Cuba and the United States reject the cancelation by US President Donald Trump of an agreement struck last December between the Cuban Baseball Federation and the Major Leagues (MLB).
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez rejected the actions by US National Security adviser John Bolton, who seeks to intensify his country''s hostile policy toward Cuba. The Cuban diplomat posted on Twitter that Bolton takes up the infamous Memorandum drafted by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Lester Mallory and surpasses it in brutality, monroism and McCarthyism. Cuba rejects the blackmail.
Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, rejected the announcement of Mike Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State, on the two-week postponement of the application of the Title III of the Helms-Burton Act.
It’s a law that follows several aims. One of them is to strangulate the Cuban economy by attempting to take the US economic blockade and making it an international blockade. In other words, coercing other governments to also apply sanctions and an economic blockade against Cuba.
Washington insists on using the term attacks for the alleged health problems experienced by its diplomats, a position that Havana frames in the interest of the current administration in the White House in reversing the steps taken toward improving relations by previous administration of Barack Obama.
This law is more interventionist that the Platt Amendment of 1901 and the Reciprocity Treaty Cuba was forced to sign to be granted fictitious independence, at the beginning of the 20th century.
JAPAN, Nov 14, 2018.- Japanese media on Wednesday reported the refusal of a Hilton-chain hotel to house Cuban diplomats under the pretext of being official representatives of a nation subject to sanctions by the United States.
… the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States, putting an end to a dispute derived from the Cold War… this process will be completed with the end of the embargo against Cuba.”
