The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, criticized this Wednesday the “severity” of the economic sanctions of the United States, which he pointed out as one of the main limitations on the development of the Caribbean country.
“As long as the United States maintains its brutal and genocidal blockade (embargo) and try to trample on national dignity, we will have a Moncada to assault,” he said at the head of the commemoration of the National Rebellion Day in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba (12 hours from Havana).
The date recalls the failed assaults on July 26, 1953 on the Moncada barracks y Carlos Manuel de Cespedes -both in the east- by a group of revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl.
Seven decades after the events, and from the same Moncada barracks (in Santiago de Cuba), Díaz-Canel charged against the “imperial aggressions” of the United States and the “obsession” with the Caribbean country.
The president mentioned in the act, also witnessed by former president Raúl Castro, that “perverse” measures such as the inclusion of Cuba in the list of sponsors of terrorism slow down Cuba’s economic development.
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