Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel did not mince words on Friday when he reacted to President Donald Trump’s latest round of economic punishments on the communist island nation.
Condemning the White House’s new round of tariffs on Cuban imports, he lambasted the administration as a “clique” run by “fascist, criminal, and genocidal” leaders who have “hijacked the interests of the American people for purely personal ends.
“Under a mendacious and empty pretext, devoid of arguments, peddled by those who engage in politics and enrich themselves at the expense of the suffering of our people, Trump seeks to strangle the Cuban economy by imposing tariffs on countries that sovereignly trade oil with Cuba,” Díaz-Canel said in a statement on social media.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel marches during a
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