SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- Cuban-American senator Marco Rubio criticized the hackneyed argument used by the regime that the blame for the food shortage of the Cuban people – one of the reasons that led to the March 17 demonstrations – lies with the United States. Joined.
On his social networks he stated that there is no embargo on food products when the regime, last year, imported more than 300 million dollars in food and basic products from the United States.
For the politician, the reason why Cubans have come out to protest this weekend and the fundamental cause of their being on the verge of collapse is that “Marxism always results in hunger, poverty and scarcity.”
His tweet refers to the reasons given by the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel and his spokesmen that the crisis, which reached a fever pitch this Sunday when many Cubans took to the streets, is caused by the US “blockade”, which usually branded as “suffocating”.
In addition to blaming the hunger and blackouts suffered by the people, the Cuban leader has accused the United States of taking advantage of the disagreements for “destabilizing purposes.”
Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parilla, in the same vein, has referred to the “direct and cruel responsibility of the US.” in the economic crisis that Cubans are suffering, ignoring any responsibility of the regime.
Without directly alluding to the protests that broke out this Sunday in Santiago de Cuba and Bayamo, the president referred, in a Twitter thread, to the fact that “several people have expressed their dissatisfaction with the situation of the electrical service and the distribution of food and blamed the demonstrations on “US-based terrorists.”
On the other hand, in an attempt to delegitimize the protests that occurred this Sunday, March 17, in the midst of exhaustion due to prolonged blackouts and food shortages, the spokespersons for the regime assured in the official media that everything had been orchestrated since the outside.
In the television space of the Round Table, the government’s official portal, several journalists aligned with the politics of Miguel Díaz-Canel tried to minimize the situation. For Randy Alonso, it was the same strategy used years ago, “an attempt to remake of July 11”, where the Cubans, without their own will, seem to have been pushed into the streets by the Americans.
2024-03-20 20:14:56
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