HAVANA — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel stated on Friday the United States, not Cuba, was an unsuccessful state, responding to remarks made the previous day by U.S. President Joe Biden in the wake of extraordinary demonstrations on the island.
Biden called the Communist-run nation a “failed state” that is “repressing their citizens”, rushing hopes he might raise debilitating sanctions whenever quickly that have actually added to Cuba’s worst econonomic crisis in years.
Biden, a Democrat, had actually sworn throughout his governmental project to alleviate a few of the sanctions on Cuba tightened up by his predecessor Donald Trump, a Republican. But experts state the demonstrations have actually complicated his political freedom to do so.
“A failed state is that which, to please a reactionary and blackmailing minority, is capable of doing damage to 11 million humans,” Díaz-Canel composed on Twitter.
Cuban authorities and numerous experts charge that U.S. policy on Cuba is driven by the anti-Communist Cuban-American neighborhood that has a strong impact on the swing state of Florida, not the interests of the Cuban individuals.
Cuba’s federal government has actually implicated the United States of lagging the demonstrations that emerged across the country on Sunday — an rare event where public dissent is limited — by funding counterrevolutionaries to foment discontent. learn more
“The United States has failed in its attempts to destroy Cuba despite spending billions of dollars in its attempts to do so,” Díaz-Canel stated in his Twitter thread, likewise berating Washington over its high COVID-19 death toll, cops violence, bigotry and “shameful record of wars”.
