cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42759010

Responding to Washington’s intensified blockade on Cuba, President Díaz-Canel says the island remains open to dialogue with the U.S. - but not under coercion. His statement comes amid escalating hostile rhetoric from the Trump administration and a new wave of economic pressure.

The U.S. has used decades-long sanctions, financial strangulation, diplomatic isolation, and now the targeting of fuel shipments, to pressure Cuba, deepening the economic crisis, affecting electricity, transportation and the daily lives of millions of Cubans. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently admitted the strategy is aimed at forcing regime-change on the island.

In this context, a key question emerges: how can U.S. policymakers claim to act in a country’s interest while also suffocating it?