Cuba lashes out against the Trump administration for new sanctions

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Cuba lashes out against the Trump administration for new sanctions







HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba said on Friday that the new sanctions planned by the United States were a futile attempt to change its policies and would only isolate Washington more internationally. 











Carlos Fernández de Cossio, Director of US Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, speaks during a press conference in Havana, Cuba, on November 2, 2018. REUTERS / Alexandre Meneghini





US President Donald Trump's national security adviser John Bolton announced on Thursday that more than two dozen Cuban companies related to the military or intelligence service of the communist island would be added to the more than 100 that the Americans They are already prohibited from doing business or sponsoring. 

The announcement came just an hour after 189 member nations of the United Nations called for a resolution to end the US economic blockade against Cuba. Washington tried unsuccessfully to amend the text to push Cuba to improve its human rights record. 

The vote of the United States can have political weight, but only the Congress of the United States can lift the embargo of more than 50 years, which Cuba calls a blockade. The United States and Israel voted against the resolution. 

Bolton described the Trump administration's plans to toughen Cuba and its allies Venezuela and Nicaragua in Miami, the heart of the exile communities of the three countries, just days before the US parliamentary elections in Congress. 

"We strongly reject these measures that will impact the economy and the development of the country in addition to the impact of the economic blockade," said the director of US affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernández de Cossio, at a press conference in Havana . 

"They are going to fail, they will not break the will of the Cubans," he said. 

Trump has taken a tougher line on Cuba after former President Barack Obama tried to put aside decades of hostility between Washington and Havana. He rejected parts of Obama's distension in 2014 by restricting rules on Americans traveling to the island and restricting US companies from doing business there. 

Bolton also said the administration would review whether it would allow US citizens whose property was seized by the Cuban government to sue foreign companies that have invested in properties on the island, a long-standing demand of hardline exiles. 

The measure is part of the Helms-Burton Act, which codified all US sanctions against Cuba and made it a law in 1996. Several presidents have renounced it since then due to opposition from the international community. 

Fernandez de Cossio said that such a measure would be unprecedented and would violate international law, further isolating the United States. 

"There is no possibility that the people who left Cuba and left the properties in Cuba return and claim them," he said. 





Marc Frank report; Edited by Tom Brown





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