Cuba warns UN of US 'humanitarian' pretext for regime change

At the United Nations Security Council, Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla delivered a stark warning, accusing the United States of orchestrating a campaign against the island nation. He described a multifaceted strategy involving sanctions, judicial accusations, and humanitarian rhetoric, all designed to tighten the economic noose around Cuba and then blame the resulting hardship on the country's own failures.

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Washington tightens the economic neck of the Island and then points to the lack of air as proof of failure.

Rodríguez specifically denounced the politically motivated charges against General Raúl Castro, arguing they were revived not for justice but to create a hostile climate. He likened the energy blockade's effects to a naval blockade, explaining how it prevents essential supplies like fuel, transportation, electricity, medicine, and even basic necessities from reaching Cuba. This blockade, he stressed, is not an abstract ideological concept but a tangible reality measured in power outages, overburdened hospitals, expensive food, sick children, and exhausted families.

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The blockade is not an ideological abstraction; it is measured in blackouts, strained hospitals, more expensive food, sick children, and exhausted families.

The human cost of these policies was a central theme. Rodríguez highlighted a rise in infant mortality and a significant drop in the survival rate for children with cancer, framing these statistics not as inevitable tragedies but as the cruel consequences of an "asphyxiation" that cripples healthcare and devastates families. He argued that Washington "punishes and then accuses Cuba of suffering," creating damage and then presenting itself as the solution.

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The energy blockade kills without firing, because it turns off machines, delays therapies, makes every emergency more expensive and turns illness into another battlefield.

Addressing the American public directly, the Foreign Minister urged them not to be swayed by elites who profit from hostility toward Cuba. He warned that any conflict would be paid for not by strategists in Miami or Washington, but by young Americans and Cubans forced to die for a falsehood. Cuba, he reiterated, is open to dialogue but not surrender, to cooperation but not tutelage, and to conversation without threat, asserting that sovereignty is non-negotiable.

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Washington punishes and then accuses Cuba of suffering. It causes the damage and then presents itself as the solution.