On March 18, 2024, Cuban Vice Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío summoned the US Chargé d’Affaires, Benjamin Ziff, to protest the “interference conduct” and “slanderous messages” of the US government and its embassy in Cuba. .
The MINREX statement includes a formal protest once morest the conduct of the United States embassy in Cuba.
According to the information offered, in the text The US diplomat is reminded that diplomatic missions in any country must meet minimum standards of decency and honesty, “something that the US embassy in Cuba has not done.”
Likewise, it is emphasized that the diplomatic office and its staff are obliged to behave in accordance with the standards of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
As is known, on the evening of this Sunday, March 17, protests took place in different territories of Cuba (Santiago, Bayamo and Santa Marta) due to food shortages and prolonged blackouts. After the demonstrations, Internet connection outages are reported, especially in the central and eastern provinces of the island.
MESSAGE FROM THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY IN CUBA
Following the protests, the United States Embassy in Cuba tweeted:
“We are aware of reports of peaceful protests in Santiago, Bayamo, Granma and other places in Cuba, with citizens protesting the lack of food and electricity. “We urge the Cuban government to respect the human rights of the protesters and address the legitimate needs of the Cuban people.”
Several diplomats responded to the diplomatic headquarters, among them, Josefina Vidal, one of the faces of the thaw between Cuba and the United States in the Obama era.
“How cynical and despicable to ask the Cuban government to satisfy the needs of its people, when the US government has been applying a brutal siege for more than 60 years to deprive my people of the essentials and cause their suffocation!” wrote.
COMMUNICATION FROM MINREX AFTER PROTESTS IN SANTIAGO DE CUBA
On March 18, 2024, the Chargé d’Affaires of the United States, Benjamin Ziff, was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Vice Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío, who formally conveyed his firm rejection of the government’s interventionist behavior and slanderous messages. American and its embassy in Cuba regarding internal affairs of the Cuban reality.
With the delivery of a formal note of protest, the American diplomat was reminded of the minimum standards of decency and honesty that are expected of a diplomatic mission in any country and that the United States embassy in Cuba appears incapable of observing, despite At the same time, it was emphasized that this diplomatic office and its staff are obliged to behave in accordance with the rules of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
At the meeting, attention was also drawn to the direct responsibility of the United States government in the face of the difficult economic situation that Cuba is currently experiencing and, specifically, in the face of the shortcomings and difficulties that the population faces on a daily basis. with the depression and insufficiency of supplies and essential services, under the weight and impact of the economic blockade designed to destroy the economic capacity of the country.
The ostensible effort of the United States government to limit and hinder every effort by the Cuban State to find solutions and respond to the economic and social needs of the country was repudiated.
The destabilizing plan and its execution are evident for all to see. It rests on the reinforcement of a ruthless economic war to provoke and exploit the natural irritation of the population. It is funded each year by tens of millions of dollars from the United States federal budget. It has a powerful technological infrastructure to exploit digital networks from US territory and for aggressive purposes. It enjoys the complicity of important media outlets of the major American and international press, and the mercenary support of people based mainly in the south of the State of Florida in the United States, whose only way of life is the industry of aggression once morest Cuba. .
If the United States government had even a minimal and honest concern regarding the well-being of the Cuban population, it would remove Cuba from the arbitrary list of States that supposedly sponsor terrorism; would put an end to the persecution of fuel supplies that the country requires to import; would stop pursuing every Cuban financial transaction in the world; would put an end to the rude persecution once morest Cuba’s medical cooperation programs in the world; would stop intimidating businessmen, visitors, artists and anyone who feels they have the interest and the right to interact with the Cuban people.
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