Guantanamo.- Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío has denounced that the effort to normalize the threat of military aggression against the island by the United States is part of a “coldly calculated” communications strategy.
“The visible effort to normalize the threat of military aggression against Cuba by the US is part of a coldly calculated communications strategy,” the Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister wrote on his social media accounts.
He maintained that this strategy “is part of the crime, and those who participate in it would be complicit in the eventual bloodbath.”
In recent days, Fernández de Cossío also denounced on his social media accounts that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, “without any evidence,” accuses the Cuban government of squandering resources and failing to address the needs he considers priorities.
“He intends to justify the collective punishment currently in place against the entire Cuban people and the possibility of military aggression,” he stated.
“Regardless of each state’s prerogative to sovereignly decide how to allocate its resources, let’s look at the facts. Even under the intense economic war imposed by the US and reinforced over the last 10 years, Cuba has focused its investment efforts on maintaining the national electricity system, including a major boost to renewable energy sources; strengthening telecommunications and expanding internet access; serving the most vulnerable communities and individuals; increasing food planting and production; strengthening water infrastructure and bringing water to hard-to-reach or underserved areas and communities; and circumventing the significant technological limitations imposed by the blockade, which demands a major creative and investment effort.”
Furthermore, he continued, “(in) developing medicines, including COVID-19 vaccines in record time; maintaining investment in tourism due to its important role in development, although with less emphasis than in the past; developing national industry in innovative areas such as the assembly of various electric vehicles, parts and components to support infrastructure, increasing domestically produced construction materials, and responding to other pressing needs.”
The Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister pointed out that these are just a few examples of a developing country with scarce natural resources, under economic warfare, and committed to a people rightfully accustomed to providing free healthcare and education at all levels for the entire population.
“It is a country at peace, where order and public tranquility are enjoyed, something that has become a luxury for many nations.”
Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío emphasized that, meanwhile, the country represented by the Secretary of State, “the richest and most powerful in the world,” dedicates its national resources to increasing the wealth of the plutocratic elite that governs it and to unleashing wars and conflicts on every continent.
“Meanwhile, 40 million of its citizens lack access to healthcare, and education is either unaffordable or demonstrably inadequate for most. Drug addiction is on the rise, devastating the population. Inequalities, polarization, and exclusion are increasing, with their growing manifestations of violence. Real income is stagnating or declining for the majority of the working class. Infrastructure is crumbling due to decades of neglect, despite having had the resources to protect it.”
Cuba’s deputy foreign minister also mentioned that “shootings in schools and public places, resulting in fatalities, are becoming commonplace. Racism and xenophobia are on the rise again. Thousands upon thousands of young people remain incarcerated indefinitely, never seeing trial.”
“All of this is happening in a country that no one attacks, blockades, or harasses, fortunately for them. But they can’t hide the corruption of the ruling elite, not even with their oligarchic monopoly on the media. It’s true that it continues to be a magnet for immigrants, due to the illusion many have of being able to enjoy the enormous wealth that is concentrated there with such inequality,” the Cuban deputy foreign minister concluded.
IMAGE CREDIT: The Deputy Foreign Minister affirmed that the Cuban government is committed to a people rightfully accustomed to providing free health and education services at all levels for the entire population. Photo: Cubadebate
[ SOURCE: teleSUR ]
