Cuba warns the UN about the worsening US blockade

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez warned the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday about the escalation of the unconventional warfare waged against the island for nearly seven decades.

“The United States government is waging a multidimensional, unconventional war that has lasted almost seven decades and has become more brutal and ruthless in the last seven months,” he asserted on social media.

He also denounced the addition of an energy blockade, equivalent to a naval blockade and an act of war. “Access to fuel supplies to Cuba, both commercial and humanitarian, is being prevented through direct threats, unilateral coercive actions, and even the harassment or intimidation of tankers by the United States,” Rodríguez added.

The Cuban Foreign Minister reiterated the frequent threats of military aggression from the highest levels of the U.S. government and the descriptions, by public sources, of war options and preparations.

The Cuban representative added that the blockade is compounded by unprecedented actions of an extreme extraterritorial nature and the use of secondary sanctions, which follow the macabre plan to provoke destabilization in Cuba, a humanitarian crisis and support for an imperialist military intervention that would cause a bloodbath and numerous losses of Cuban and American lives.