{"id":13175,"date":"2025-06-16T09:45:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=13175"},"modified":"2025-06-16T14:49:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T18:49:03","slug":"cuban-vice-foreign-minister-reiterates-condemnation-of-unilateral-coercive-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/cuban-vice-foreign-minister-reiterates-condemnation-of-unilateral-coercive-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Reiterates Condemnation of Unilateral Coercive Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-450f08e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"450f08e\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d7854a elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-excerpt\" data-id=\"5d7854a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-excerpt.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cossio-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cossio-.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cossio--300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cossio--768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>Guant\u00e1namo.- Cuba today reaffirmed its condemnation of all extraterritorial unilateral coercive measures, particularly the U.S. economic blockade, which it described as &#8220;an absolute and ruthless economic war.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. economic blockade against Cuba goes beyond the label of unilateral coercive extraterritorial measures\u2014it even surpasses the definition of a commercial embargo,\u201d stated Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fern\u00e1ndez de Coss\u00edo during the UN General Assembly\u2019s Plenary Meeting on the *Elimination of Unilateral Extraterritorial Coercive Measures as a Means of Political and Economic Compulsion*.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that the blockade constitutes \u201ca total and merciless economic warfare,\u201d extending far beyond a mere ban on trade between Cuba and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Fern\u00e1ndez de Coss\u00edo recalled that since its inception in 1960, the blockade has aimed to suppress living standards, slash real incomes, and create hunger, scarcity, and despair\u2014punishing the entire population to break their political will and subjugate the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe laws enforcing the blockade leave no doubt about the interventionist, hegemonic, and colonialist ambitions driving the U.S. government,\u201d he asserted. \u201cThey make unequivocally clear the intent to sever Cuba\u2019s economic ties with the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Vice Minister further noted that the U.S. not only refuses to trade with Cuba\u2014allowing only severely restricted exceptions\u2014but actively obstructs, persecutes, and sabotages the island\u2019s commercial transactions with *any* country globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guant\u00e1namo.- Cuba today reaffirmed its condemnation of all extraterritorial unilateral coercive measures, particularly the U.S. economic blockade, which it described as &#8220;an absolute and ruthless economic war.&#8221; \u201cThe U.S. economic blockade against Cuba goes beyond the label of unilateral coercive extraterritorial measures\u2014it even surpasses the definition of a commercial embargo,\u201d stated Cuban Vice Foreign Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guantanamo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13178,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13175\/revisions\/13178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}