MIAMI, United States.- Through a release issued this Friday by the White House and destined for the offices of the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and the Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, the US president, Joe Biden, reported that he will maintain the trade embargo on Cuba, in force for six decades . The president’s decision did not sit well with the Castro ruling leadership.
The first to react was the Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, who complained on Friday about the extension of Washington’s embargo against Havana. In a post on his account twitter social networkthe official spokesman blamed, one more timeto the United States of all the ills that afflict Cubans.
“By extending the application of the ‘Trading with the Enemy Law,’ Biden becomes the twelfth president of the United States to ratify the framework that sustains the policy of abuse against Cuba and its people,” Rodríguez Parrilla wrote.
He also added that US policy “is rejected by almost all the member countries of the international community,” referring to the vote that is held each year at the UN.
The embargo must be extended every year during the month of September by the president of the United States since John F. Kennedy imposed sanctions against Havana in 1962. Since then, each US president has decided to extend the economic embargo under regulation.
This year, Biden’s note said: “The exercise of certain authorities under the Trading with the Enemy Act is scheduled to expire on September 14, 2022. I hereby determine that the continued exercise of those authorities with respect to Cuba for one year is in the national interest of the United States.”
The Trading with the Enemy Act, a 1917 statute that authorizes the US president to impose and maintain economic restrictions on states considered hostile, supports the economic embargo on the island imposed as a response to the confiscation of US property on the island. after the coming to power of Fidel Castro.
The renewal of the Trading with the Enemy Law extends to the maximum the authority of the president to administer the embargo to the Government of the Island and authorize certain transactions.
This Saturday, the Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel also reacted to the extension, who criticized the decision of the US president.
“Biden did not dare to take away the ‘pretext’ and signed for the continuation of the blockade,” Díaz-Canel wrote on Twitter, referring to the memorandum that extends said policy until September 14, 2023.
“Crime has lasted too long, but the Cuban Revolution will survive it,” he added.
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