Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel.Photo: Reuters
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Friday that after Joe Biden called the island nation a “failed country,” the United States had “failed to destroy Cuba.”
Five days after the historic anti-government protests resulted in one death, dozens of injuries and more than 100 arrests, the Communist Party leader wrote on Twitter: “Despite billions of dollars spent, the United States Failed to destroy Cuba.”
Diaz-Canel said: “A failed country, in order to please and blackmail a reactionary minority, has the ability to cause multiple damage to 11 million people, ignoring the wishes of the majority of Cubans, Americans and the international community. “Continued, referring to the trade embargo imposed by the United States since 1962 and strengthened under the leadership of former President Donald Trump.
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On Thursday, Biden accused Cuba of “suppressing their citizens”. He said that the United States is preparing to send Cuba “a large number of vaccines. If in fact, I am assured that an international organization will manage these vaccines and make them available to ordinary citizens. The way.”
He also said that the United States is considering ways to enforce restrictions on the Internet in Cuba.
Diaz-Canel shot back:
If President Joseph Biden has sincere humanitarian care for the Cuban people, he can cancel the 243 measures implemented by President Donald Trump, including more than 50 measures brutally implemented during the pandemic, as the first step towards ending the blockade .
