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U.S. sanctions on Cuba

Statement by H.E. Mr. Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Meeting of the Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative 

Statement by H.E. Mr. Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, at the High-level Meeting of the Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative

Statement by H.E. Mr. Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, at the High-level Meeting of the Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative 

Your Excellency Han Zheng, Vice President of the People’s Republic of China;

Distinguished participants;

We are gathered here today to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the launch of the Global Development Initiative by President Xi Jinping during his address to the general debate of the 76th Session of the General Assembly.

Over the past five years, the Initiative has continued to represent a new paradigm of cooperation for sustainable development, in line with the legitimate interests and aspirations of the nations of the Global South, and has contributed to the progress toward the development goals of participating countries.

In the current context—marked by an unprecedented rise in unilateralism, threats to global peace and security and the use of unilateral coercive measures to subjugate developing countries—this Initiative, under China’s leadership, offers a reliable alternative for international cooperation that benefits those who need it most and is consistent with the need to design and promote a just and equitable new international order.

Our country, a founding member of this Group of Friends, is grateful for the cooperation we have received, which has been vital in mitigating the devastating effects of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States—a blockade that has been further reinforced in recent times by a cruel energy siege, equivalent to a naval blockade; and by the intimidating effects of so-called secondary sanctions against third parties.

Esteemed colleagues;

This platform is particularly relevant to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. With only four years remaining until the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, we must make the most of the scientific and technical potential of the members of this Initiative through a South-South cooperation approach, so as not to lose sight of the goals set forth in this global development agenda.

True to our principles of solidarity, Cuba is always ready to contribute, in its own modest way, to the efforts proposed by the Global Development Initiative.

Thank you very much.

U.S. sanctions on Cuba, US World Hegemony

The only threat to peace in the region comes from the US government

The only threat to peace in the region comes from the US government

The Cuban foreign minister denounced the brutal act of aggression against Cuba and its people, whom the US government now seeks to subject to extreme living conditions

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Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, member of the Political Bureau and Minister of Foreign Affairs, condemned “in the strongest terms” the new escalation by the U.S. government against Cuba in a publication in X.
“Now it intends to impose a total blockade on fuel supplies to our country.”
“To justify this, it relies on a long list of lies that seek to portray Cuba as a threat that it is not. Every day there is new evidence that the only threat to peace, security, and stability in the region, and the only malign influence, is that exerted by the U.S. government against the nations and peoples of Our America, which it seeks to subjugate to its dictates, strip of their resources, mutilate their sovereignty, and deprive of their independence.”
Rodríguez Parrilla also said that the White House “also resorts to blackmail and coercion to try to get other countries to join its universally condemned policy of blockade against Cuba, threatening those that refuse with the imposition of arbitrary and abusive tariffs, in violation of all free trade rules.”
In this regard, he denounced before the world the brutal act of aggression against Cuba and its people, who for more than 65 years have been subjected to the longest and cruelest economic blockade ever imposed on an entire nation, and who are now promised to be subjected to extreme living conditions, he remarked.

U.S. sanctions on Cuba

Economic sanctions: a “non-violent measure” that takes lives

Economic sanctions: a “non-violent measure” that takes lives

In the case of Cuba, only four months of blockade “are equivalent to the financing required to cover the country’s basic medicine needs for one year”

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august 1, 2025 08:08:52

Although the declared objective is to force behavioral changes, economic sanctions especially harm Photo: Granma

Economic sanctions imposed unilaterally by some States do kill. This was recalled by a publication of Misión Verdad, based on a study by the journal The Lancet Global Health.
The analysis – led by economists Francisco Rodríguez, Silvio Rendón and Mark Weisbrot, and supported by data from 152 countries – states that these restrictive measures “imposed by the United States or the European Union were associated with 564,258 deaths per year between 1971 and 2021”.
Although the stated objective is to force behavioral changes, according to the researchers, “all economic sanctions ultimately function as health sanctions,” affecting access to medical services, food security and socioeconomic development, which especially harms “children, women and the most marginalized populations.”
Another article published in the journal reveals that, as a result of sanctions, there has been a “3.1% increase in infant mortality and a 6.4% rise annually in maternal mortality between 1990 and 2019.”
It argues that the increase in sanctions has been steady since 1950, according to the Global Sanctions Database. However, “their success rate in achieving the stated goal remains at around 30%”.
Mission Truth exposes that “Venezuela, subject to sanctions as of 2017, recorded between 2012 and 2020 an economic contraction of 71 %, and shortage peaks that directly affected the availability of oncological treatments and retrovirals. In Iraq, the embargo imposed after the invasion of Kuwait coincided with the death of more than 500 000 children during the 1990s, according to Unicef,” he underlines.
“Syria accumulated successive rounds of sanctions since 2011, reinforced with the Caesar Law, in 2020, and today has 90% of its population below the poverty line.”
In the case of Cuba, according to the latest report presented to the United Nations, just four months of blockade “is equivalent to the financing required to cover the needs of the country’s basic list of medicines for a year”.
“For countries under sanctions, induced shortages are not a surgical intervention but a sustained form of coercion. With an additional 564 000 deaths per year, the label of ‘non-violent measure’ collapses,” the publication reads.

U.S. sanctions on Cuba

Speech by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez at BRICS Summit

The commitment of BRICS countries to building a fairer and more inclusive international order is inspiring

Speech by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the XVII BRICS Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6, 2025, “Year 67 of the Revolution”

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july 7, 2025 09:07:14

We are honored to join with the noble aspiration of contributing and learning Photo: Estudios Revolución

(Shorthand Versions – Presidency of the Republic)
Dear President Lula;
Dear Heads of State and Heads of Delegations:
I believe I must begin by thanking you, on behalf of my country and my people, for our integration into BRICS as a partner.  BRICS today is synonymous with hope.  The hope that multilateralism will be saved from the chaos and ineffectiveness into which the arrogance of a few has plunged the UN, which 80 years ago was born to prevent war from being an alternative for the solution of conflicts, urgently in need of the profound reforms that the Global South has been demanding for more than half a century.
The octogenarian organization is dangerously fragmented and seriously threatened by a progressive erosion of multilateralism that translates into high risks for international peace and security.
The horror of the last weeks and months clearly shows where the diplomacy of force leads.  The Government of the United States, using and abusing its undoubted military, economic, financial and every other kind of power, except moral, constantly acts with absolute disregard for the principles and norms of International Law and the Charter of the United Nations.  It withdraws from various international organizations and forums; declares plans for land usurpation and annexation of territories; justifies and promotes supremacist ideas; carries out massive, violent and racist deportations of migrants, and no longer even hides its ambitious and spurious geostrategic interests.
It is the same power that supported the recent aggressions of the Government of Israel against Iran and carried out a direct attack on the Persian nation with the bombings perpetrated against three nuclear facilities.

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