Protests in Cuba: Díaz Canel’s response to Joe Biden | “It could eliminate the 243 measures applied by Trump”

The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz Canel, came to meet his American counterpart, Joe Biden, who criticized the island’s government and supported the July 11-12 protests through social media campaigns. “The United States failed to destroy Cuba despite the fact that to achieve this he wasted billions of dollars, ”declared the Cuban president.

After protests erupted Sunday and Monday in 40 towns and villages shouting “we are hungry”, “down with dictatorship” and “freedom”, Biden offered to help Cuba on ThursdayBut he called the island a “failed state that represses its citizens.”

Havana’s response was immediate. “A failed state is a state which, to please a reactionary and blackmailing minority, is capable of multiplying the damage to 11 million human beings ignoring the will of the majority of Cubans, Americans and the international community, ”the Cuban president said via Twitter.

Díaz Canel argued that if the US president wants to help the island, his government should lift the embargo economic tax imposed since 1962, and reinforced during the mandate of Donald Trump (2017-2021).

During a press conference, Biden said he was open to shipping “significant quantities” of covid vaccine. to the Caribbean island, which is experiencing a sharp increase in coronavirus infections and has developed its own vaccines, in the midst of the economic crisis.

If Biden “had a sincere humanitarian concern for the Cuban people, he could eliminate the 243 measures applied by President Donald Trump,” Diaz-Canel insisted., which underlined the “more than 50 cruelly imposed during the pandemic, as a first step towards the end of the blockade”.

“Cuba is and will remain a country of peace. To defend the tranquility of our streets, we will continue to do everything possible. In the midst of these difficult days, I call for the unity of our people and of all families, wherever they are, ”he concluded.