In a predictable script, the Cuban government and the Secretary of State Marco Rubio They crossed criticism and accusations in the midst of the rising confrontation between Washington and Havana.
Rubio, in statements to American television Fox News During his tour of Central America, he assured at the beginning of the week that he has no “intention” to travel to Cuba at the moment, “except to discuss when their rulers are going to go”.
In addition, he said that the Cuban “regime” was “a disaster” that “has destroyed the country” and that it was “hostile to the United States,” He reviewed CNN.
In response, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said Tuesday in X that the Secretary of State “will be left with the desire.”
“You will not be able to know Cuba, a country who knows absolutely nothing. He was not invited, ”said Cuban Foreign Minister, who pointed out that his government,” with the support of the people “, will continue” defending the revolution, independence and national sovereignty. “
“We had 13 US presidents and we lost account of the Secretaries of State,” he said.
Our government, with the support of the people of #Cubawill continue to defend the revolution, independence and national sovereignty.
We had 13 presidents of the United States and lost the account of the Secretaries of State. pic.twitter.com/fyxlnudavf
– Bruno Rodríguez P (@brunorguezp) February 4, 2025
“Enemies of humanity”
The crossing of statements, however, was not there.
This Tuesday, at a press conference in San José de Costa Rica, the Secretary of State described Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela as “enemies of humanity” and accused them of being the causes of the immigration crisis in the hemisphere.
“Those three regimes that exist, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba, are enemies of humanity and have created a migration crisis, if it were not for those three regimes there would be no immigration crisis in the hemisphere,” said Rubio, cited by EFE.
In his opinion, those three nations have created the current immigration crisis they face “because they are countries where their system does not work.”
These accusations also did not fall into a vacuum and were quickly answered from Havana.
Bruno Rodríguez himself said that the position promoted by Rubio was a “threat” for the Latin American region, while carrying his “corrupt and dishonest” methods.
“The projection of USA Towards Latin America and the Caribbean promoted by the Secretary of State is a threat to the region and logically rests in the corrupt and dishonest methods that he, his companion Bob Menéndez and other anti -Cubans made a usual practice, ” wrote In X.
President Miguel Díaz-Canel went further and described as “shamelessness” the statements of the Secretary of State-a staunch defender of the hard line against the current government of his parents-, which he considered a flag bearer of the “neo-fascism.”
“The shame once again seizing the cynical politicians of the US is proportional to the hardening of blockadethat deprives our people from essential goods, ”replied the president.
“Human skill danger for your neo-fascism,” added Díaz-Canel, for whom “enemy of humanity “is” the empire ” – in reference to the United States government -” with its expansionist appetite and its useless claim to govern the world. “
Enemies of humanity who resist blockages without abandoning solidarity with other peoples or who apply the #Blockade trampling international laws? Enemy of humanity the empire with its expansionist appetite and its useless claim to govern the world.
2/2
-Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@diazcanelb) February 4, 2025
Rubio’s statements were not only answered by the Cuban government. The Venezuelan Chancellor, Yván Gil, said that Rubio is a “obsessed pathetic” with Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, because, he said, he does not support to see that those countries “stand up and break the libretto.”
“The only enemies of humanity are those who, with their war and abuse machinery, have been sowing chaos and misery in half the world,” Gil said.
Washington and Havana live a moment of renewed tension after Donald Trump’s return to the presidency of the United States. In his early days in the White House, the Republican returned to the island to the list of sponsoring countries of terrorism and reversed other measures taken by Biden at the end of his mandate.
In addition, he ordered the transfer of irregular migrants to the Naval Base of Guantanamo – territory that Cuba considers illegally occupied – something that This own Tuesday began.
All these decisions of the Trump administration have been officially questioned by the island’s authorities, while Marking Rubio and other American politicians, in particular Cuban American congressmen, have raised the tone against Havana.
All this has raised the temperature to the historical bilateral different, a confrontation that will presumably continue to climb and enclose the positions of one and another part during the period of government that just begins in the North American nation.
