Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel criticised US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday for denying that Washington is enforcing an oil blockade against the island nation.
“Surprisingly, a high-ranking US government official would publicly state that his government is not imposing an energy blockade against Cuba, and that he is unaware of the provisions of his own president’s Executive Order issued on January 29,” Diaz-Canel wrote on X.
“Surprisingly, he has not heard his president and the White House spokesperson address the issue,” he added.
“Equally surprising is that he blames the alleged incompetence of Cubans for the difficulties facing the economy — an economy that the US government itself has sought to destroy and continues to seek to destroy today, investing substantial resources and political capital to achieve this goal.”
