Cuban exile groups called on Tuesday in Miami for the international community to “replicate” to Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua the sanctions imposed on Russia for invading Ukraine, for its “complicity” with the government of Vladimir Putin in this conflict.
“We are asking for the same sanctions that have been applied to Russia to the three regimes that are enemies of hemispheric peace,” he told Eph Orlando Gutiérrez, leader of the Cuban Democratic Directorate, on this request to the government of the United States and the European Union.
Gutiérrez considered that these governments have placed their countries in “serious danger” by placing them on the side of Russia at this time of armed conflict.
Since Russia launched the invasion once morest Ukraine, the EU prohibited transactions with the Central Bank of Russia, the exclusion of a list of banks from the SWIFT banking system and has closed the airspace to Russian aviation, among other measures of the international community. .
Although these sanctions are not approved for Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, Gutiérrez considered that those that have already been approved once morest Russia might have a strong impact on the Castro regime, because, he explained, the Cuban government makes use of the Russian banking system.
In his opinion, the continuity of the Putin government’s agreement with Cuba to extend payments on the island’s debt might also be “difficult” in the current circumstances and Russia’s need for liquidity in the midst of the war.
To this should be added, he added, the possible incidence of a lower arrival of Russian tourists who traditionally visit the Caribbean country following the Russian airlines Aeroflot and Azur Air have temporarily canceled their flights to Cuba due to the war in Ukraine.
In this way, Gutiérrez coincided with the opinion expressed to the Voice of America media by the director of the National Security Council for the Western Hemisphere of the United States Government, Juan González, who said that the sanctions “will have an impact on those countries that have affiliations economic relations with Russia.
This request to “replicate” the sanctions was joined this Tuesday by the president of the International Justice Cuba Commission, the Mexican jurist René Bolio, who also participated in the announcement of solidarity activities with Ukraine made today at the headquarters of the Assault Brigade 2506.
Bolio criticized the “explicit complicity” of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela with Russia and considered that the governments of these countries should be punished for aligning themselves with a country that has committed, in his opinion, “war crimes and crimes once morest humanity” in Ukraine. .
For this reason, he urged to “homologate” the sanctions that Russia received from the international community, including the exclusion of the SWIFT banking system “so that they cannot transfer their financial assets”, a “dirty money” with which they maintain, he said, the “terrible arms trade to murder their own citizens.”
“An explicit sanction is necessary for explicit complicity in an invasion of a sovereign people,” Bolio assured.
In this act it was announced that this Thursday a mass will be held in solidarity with Ukraine and on Sunday a meeting in support of democracy and freedom will be held at the Cuban Memorial in Miami.
