Law and justice are on Cuba's side

HAVANA, Cuba, January 12 (ACN) Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Cuban Foreign Minister, rejected on X the statements made by US President Donald Trump, who announced the end of Venezuelan support for the island.

The Cuban diplomat emphasized that “unlike the #USA, we do not have a government that lends itself to mercenary activity, blackmail, or military coercion against other states.”

Rodríguez defended his government's transparency and rights in international relations and criticized the US administration for contrary practices, including military coercion.

For his part, Díaz-Canel stated that Cuba is a free, independent, and sovereign nation that does not accept external dictates nor threaten other peoples.

For 66 years, it has been the target of US aggression, and during that time, it has resolutely prepared to defend the homeland to the last drop of blood, reaffirming its determination to resist and preserve its sovereignly chosen political model.

Those who blame the Revolution for the economic hardships facing the country should be ashamed to remain silent, for they acknowledge that these difficulties are a direct consequence of the extreme strangulation measures imposed by Washington for more than six decades.

Those who turn everything into a business, even human lives, have no moral authority, and those who today angrily attack Cuba do so because they cannot tolerate this people's sovereign decision to maintain their own path, the President added.

Rodríguez Parrilla affirmed that Cuba has not received, nor will it ever receive, monetary or material compensation for security services provided to other countries, and emphasized that, unlike the United States, the Cuban government has not engaged in mercenary activity or military blackmail against third-party states.

The Foreign Minister maintained that, like any nation, Cuba has the right to import fuel from markets willing to export it, in the exercise of its legitimate trade relations and without being subject to unilateral coercive measures by Washington.

In his message, the Cuban foreign minister stated that law and justice support Cuba, while the United States acts as a hegemon that threatens international peace and security.

The statements by Díaz-Canel and Rodríguez Parrilla were a response to an article published by Trump on Truth Social, where he asserted that Venezuela would cease supplying oil and financial resources to Cuba, while urging Havana to negotiate with Washington.

The US president erroneously wrote that “Venezuela now has the United States of America, the most powerful military in the world, to protect it, and we will do so.

There will be no more oil or money for Cuba: zero.”

The Cuban leaders reiterated that the policy of coercion applied by Washington constitutes a threat to regional and global stability, and reaffirmed that Cuba will continue to defend its sovereignty and its commercial rights.

Rodríguez Parrilla affirmed that his country does not receive, nor has it ever received, monetary or material compensation for security services it has provided to any country.

He stated that the Caribbean nation has the absolute right to import fuel from those markets willing to export it and that exercise their right to develop their trade relations, “without interference or subordination to the unilateral coercive measures of the US,” he added.

In this regard, he noted that “the US behaves like a criminal and unchecked hegemon that threatens peace and security, not only in Cuba and this hemisphere, but throughout the world.”
Law and justice are on Cuba’s side, the Caribbean nation’s Foreign Minister concluded.