Regarding Cuba's position regarding international aid and donations, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that the country arouses enormous international solidarity. «For months and to a greater extent in recent weeks we have received numerous offers of practical support, donations that are often modest, but of great symbolic and moral value that encourage the efforts of our people.
«They are offers from governments, institutions, groups of people, solidarity associations and Cubans residing abroad. Dozens of operations have been carried out or are underway ”, he stressed.
The Foreign Minister referred to the statement from the President of the United States, Joe Biden, related to the events that took place in Cuba. “I must say that the world has reacted with respect and trust for the flawless trajectory of Cuba, always attached to the truth, with the people and by the people and for the people.
“However, politicians in the United States approach these matters with extraordinary cynicism, hypocrisy and manipulation. In the statement, the US president asks the "Havana regime" to listen to the Cuban people and alleviate their needs.
“President Biden would do well to listen to the Cuban people who have spoken out repeatedly in recent years against the blockade. If you want to do something, you must also listen to the North American people and remove the blockade against Cuba and the 243 measures that it inherited from President Trump, it could even eliminate those that were applied during the pandemic, "the Minister stressed.
Later, he affirmed that the US government has used the pandemic as an ally in the application of the intensified blockade. "It could also stop using the means of repression with which the police in the United States repress Afro-descendants, minorities, journalists and could stop exporting those means of repression to other countries," he argued.
Neither in crisis, nor in a situation of ungovernability Bruno Rodríguez recalled that on June 15, a first call for the campaign using the SOS Cuba label was launched, aimed at damaging the vote in the UN General Assembly against the blockade, which failed taking into account the results in favor of the lifting of the unjust siege and in the forceful debate where the United States was completely isolated and demoralized.
“As the scope of this campaign was nil, there were changes in the actions. This Sunday in Cuba there was not a social outbreak, but riots and disorder caused by a communication operation that has been preparing for a long time to which multimillion-dollar resources and technological platforms are allocated with funds from the United States Government, some declared and others from its services special ", he stressed.
He affirmed that “what took place were riots in different communities manipulating conditions that have been explained in this appearance, criticism and difficulties that our families have, but by agents paid by the United States Government, by foreign powers, salaried employees, mercenaries who, even , carried out violent actions and acted against correspondents of the foreign press ”.
Bruno Rodríguez recalled that last June 23, the United Nations also said about those who delirious with generating an illegal, irregular, uncontrolled migratory flow and we have warned the United States that this is a dangerous bet that damages lives and the interests of both countries. .
In addition, he called on the US Government to recognize or deny that the company established in Miami that generated the SOS Cuba label, received a few days ago a certificate from the Republican Government of Florida, protected by the Republican State Department of Florida, to act with state funds.
«I also call for you to confirm or deny that the main political operators of this company, connected with a publication financed by the United States Government and part of the group of Miami media that act against Cuba, generated this campaign that has received funding from the Department of State and the USAID as part of the information war against our country. The Minister explained that there is an account enabled in the International Financial Bank that has received around one and a half million dollars in these months of COVID-19. He assured that the main obstacle for this aid to reach Cuba is the blockade of the United States, which affects financial transfers and transportation to the country.
He recognized the efforts of the Cuban community abroad in sending aid in an organized manner, through consulates and embassies, as well as the efforts of companies that do business with Cuba, such as the mixed firm MCB Comercial, which has already sent a batch of Ambulances that are being used and that he announced will send another 26 ambulances.
"The Government has always been in charge of making a good distribution of this aid and using it in the priorities of our economic and social development," said the Minister, who clarified that there are other personal shipments to family and friends that do not classify as international cooperation or They are governed by this legislation, but they can also be done through the normal route of a customs clearance.
A policy of cooperation Referring to the Cuban cooperation policy created by the Revolution, Malmierca Díaz pointed out that it is based on solidarity and humanism, and has a long history of decades of projects and donations received and also offered by our country.
In this sense, he referred to Decree-Law 16/2020, which brought together all the various legal norms on the subject and is very clear in terms of the mechanisms that can be used to cooperate with Cuba. "This allows both national and regional governments, companies, international organizations of the United Nations system or not, non-governmental organizations and even natural persons to provide assistance to Cuba."
The Minister explained that this can be through cooperation projects or donations and specific cooperation actions. In this resolution, he detailed, it is determined that the Mincex is the body of the Central State Administration responsible for controlling and facilitating these cooperation actions.
«Our embassies and consulates in the world are informed of what these mechanisms are so that these possible aid can reach our country. The Cuban State has defined very clearly what are the priorities of the aid that we can receive. In these times of covid-19 we even developed an expedited procedure to receive international aid, "he said.
“I also call on them to deny that the political operators who launched this label and this campaign have been organizing demonstrations, even with the use of violence on occasions against our embassy in Washington, which was not long ago attacked by shots, without the US Government have said a word.
The Foreign Minister pointed out that on July 5, from a media laboratory based in Florida, the campaign for humanitarian intervention in Cuba was launched on Twitter. He also explained that a humanitarian intervention was what took place in Yugoslavia in 1999. "Those who induce, speak and instigate a humanitarian intervention are calling for a US military intervention in our country, which violates our laws and international law."
More than 500 offers of help Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 500 offers of help for 45 million dollars have been received, which come from more than 50 countries, most of them in medicines, material that can be used to care for patients and medical equipment, said the Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz.
Likewise, he highlighted the donation of lung ventilators from the Chinese Government. "There are many governments that have sent us donations: China, Venezuela, Russia, Canada, Spain, India, South Africa, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, among others."
Interference aid no The people took to the streets to defend their Revolution. Photo: Alejandro Rodríguez Leiva / Adelante Newspaper.
For his part, the Cuban President reiterated that "the aid that we are not going to accept is the interventionist, which is not aid and they try to disguise it with terms, but it comes with bad intentions." And he stressed that once again the Yankee arrogance fails. “Once again they believed that by betting on these simulated plans they were going to achieve an isolation of Cuba and today the world is supporting us.
«Cuba is not alone. Every time the Government of the United States isolates itself more for having that belligerent attitude, without any reason, against our heroic people. Therefore, Cuba is still alive and Cuba wins, "he reiterated.
Díaz-Canel stressed that we have had support and solidarity from Cuban residents abroad. “There are even Cuban doctors residing abroad who have given their willingness to come to Cuba. To that community, which wants to maintain a relationship worthy of respect with its Cuban roots, our respect. (With information from Cubadebate)
Twitter located from Cuba "I urge Twitter and the US government to recognize or deny that political operators actively used labels, robot collectives, trolls, which are users coordinated by automated means, in this operation against Cuba," said the Cuban Foreign Minister, who added that, despite the denunciation of these accounts, Twitter did not apply its own regulations to prevent these actions from being carried out, even when it had called for assassination and violence.
«I also call on Twitter to say whether it is true or not that the geolocation systems of the accounts were altered to deceive people into believing that more than half of those accounts were in Cuba and that is false, because the immense most are outside of Cuba.
“I also call on Twitter to recognize or deny that there was an operation against so-called influencers, young people who have followers, on other platforms such as YouTube that are mechanisms for the multiplication of content messages, in some cases with financing and in other cases with brutal pressure and blackmail. Using automated resources to flood their accounts and create a virtual reality that did not exist in our country, "he said.
Rodríguez Parrilla pointed out that this generated that many users who saw SOS Cuba, Cubans and associations that want to help with donations, were manipulated, as well as announced that, in the next few hours, he will present copious evidence of these accusations to the United States Government and to Twitter.
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