{"id":14136,"date":"2025-10-03T13:34:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=14136"},"modified":"2025-10-03T13:34:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:34:56","slug":"u-s-blockade-is-causing-the-limitations-of-access-to-medicines-in-cuba-admitted-by-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/u-s-blockade-is-causing-the-limitations-of-access-to-medicines-in-cuba-admitted-by-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Blockade is Causing the Limitations of Access to Medicines in Cuba, Admitted by Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bloqueo_medicina.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/>Guant\u00e1namo.- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez says that the United States economic, commercial and financial blockade is causing the limitations of access to medicines in the Caribbean country, recently admitted by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>On the social network X, the foreign minister shared a fragment of his interview with CNN en Espa\u00f1ol, where he addressed the impact of Washington\u2019s hostile policy on the healthcare of the Cuban population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn an interview with @CNNEE, I explained that the US president recognizes that the way his country conducts itself with #Cuba prevents the Cuban economy from securing the necessary resources to provide medicines to the entire population,\u201d the foreign minister wrote.<\/p>\n<p>This statement refers to recent comments by Donald Trump, in which he asserts that Cuba \u201cdoesn\u2019t have money for Tylenol (paracetamol).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, Bruno Rodr\u00edguez explains that the blockade includes a ban on sending medications and medical equipment to Cuba, as demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic, when that country refused to supply ventilators and medical oxygen through subsidiary companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US blockade affects health services, causes illness, and causes deaths in Cuba despite our very powerful health system,\u201d the foreign minister concluded.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cuba\u2019s most recent report on the effects of the blockade, this Washington policy affects the acquisition of 69 percent of basic prescription medications on the island.<\/p>\n<p>He specifies that of this list of 651 medications (250 imported and 401 domestically produced), more than 400 are currently not being received regularly in the country\u2019s pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, 364 medications (56% of the total) are in short supply, the report emphasizes.<\/p>\n<p>The document highlights that Cuba cannot normally access or must do so through third markets and at much higher prices, advanced U.S.-made technologies and medications, or medical equipment in which more than 10% of its components are from the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guant\u00e1namo.- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez says that the United States economic, commercial and financial blockade is causing the limitations of access to medicines in the Caribbean country, recently admitted by President Donald Trump. 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