NEW YORK (AP) – Recent US escalation in the Caribbean is the result of the Secretary of State Marco Rubio A top Cuban diplomat added that the “personal” agenda for the region is increasingly promoting policies that his American counterparts do not match the president. Donald Trump’s The so-called mandate of peace.
Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parila told The Associated Press that Cuba believed that when Trump took office in January it could change the longstanding hostile dynamics between the US and the Communist Party-run island. However, he added that Rubio, born a Cuban immigrant, made his mission to Washington to adopt an even stronger “maximum pressure” campaign on Havana.
“The current Secretary of State wasn’t born in Cuba, he has never been to Cuba and knows nothing about Cuba,” Rodriguez said in a sit-in interview with the Associated Press on Tuesday. “But there is the very personal and corrupt agenda he is doing, which appears to be sacrificing US national interests to advance this highly radical approach.”
The State Department did not respond to a request for comment. Rubio and US officials have defended their positive attitude towards Cuba and accused their leaders of running a dictatorship.
“The United States continues to support the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the Cuban people, making it clear that illegal and authoritarian regimes are not welcome in our hemisphere,” Rubio said in a July statement.
When it comes to the US, the road is delicate for Cuba
The Foreign Minister and other Cuban officials have toe the diplomatic line with the Trump administration to end the six-year economic embargo while not overthrowing the government.
In his official statement and speech, authorities are moving away from directly criticizing Trump for the series of offensive actions his administration had made against Cuba in the first eight months of his second term. Those include restoring many restrictive economic sanctions that were relaxed between the terms of Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Biden had it for a few days before he left. Moved to lift the US designation in Cuba As a national sponsor of terrorism.
Trump returned the country to the list the day after taking office. The US also made Cuba One of seven countries faces increasing restrictions Visitors and Temporary legal protections have been revoked It protected roughly 300,000 Cubans from deportation. The government has also announced Visa Restrictions They are involved in Cuba’s medical missions for officials from both Cuban and foreign governments. This is what Rubio calls “forced labor.”
Rodriguez, who has been Foreign Minister since 2009, has directly condemned the recent escalation of Cuba and Venezuela at the “bipolar” State Department, not the Trump White House. He added that Trump “depicting himself as a defender of peace,” but that it is Rubio who “promotes force or threat as a routine, customary tool.”
Before being used as Secretary of State and national security adviser, Rubio had already exerted influence over US policies on Latin America during Trump’s first term.
The former Florida senator acknowledged that his interest in targeting left-wing Latin American leaders was personal. His parents are Cuban immigrants who arrived in Miami in 1956, just before Fidel Castro’s Communist Revolution in 1959. He grew up in Miami. There, many Cubans sought evacuation after Castro came to power.
His consistent criticism of communism helped him win his support from thousands of members of the Venezuelan diaspora. He escaped the late Hugo Chavez, who set up a plan in 1999 to begin his self-explained socialist revolution, with a new home under Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Actions in waters off the coast of Venezuela cited as an attack
Lobbying for further US intervention in Latin America, which defined much of Rubio’s quarter century in politics, was on Stark Display recently when the US was in the US I sent a fleet After ordering back-to-back, the American warships into the sea off Venezuela A fatal strike About a suspicious drug ship.
Rodriguez said Cuba acted in “complete solidarity” with Venezuela, warning of an extraordinary naval accumulation from South America and Trump’s speculation You can try to defeat it Maduro “can have unexpected and devastating consequences.” The Trump administration said it was trying to force Cuba to stop Maduro’s support, which it said is receiving military and intelligence news from Cubans.
When asked if Cuba would support Cuba militarily and militarily if an invasion occurred, he interrupted him by saying, “I don’t know what the future could bring.”
However, Rodriguez expressed optimism about the prospect of a less hostile relationship with his north neighbor, saying that authorities continue to work with Washington on several bilateral agreements, including counter-terrorism and migration.
He said, “We are completely delighted to today, as we have done, in a serious and responsible dialogue with the current US administration.”
