Montevideo, Jul 20 (Prensa Latina) Cuba is facing a multidimensional war that acts as a punishment for its people, stated Lissett Perez, the Caribbean island’s ambassador to Uruguay.

• July 20, 2026

She said that the oil embargo decreed by the United States is, in practice, a naval blockade that also affects other countries and underscores the extraterritorial nature of Washington’s policies against her nation.

It is a people suffering human rights violations, unable to advance their development plans. On the contrary, she noted, the US seeks to reverse the social, economic, and scientific achievements attained by the Cuban Revolution.

Cuba suffers harassment from the world’s leading power—located just 90 miles off its coast—despite the fact that the United Nations General Assembly has called for an immediate end to the blockade on 33 occasions, she stated.

She remembered that on July 7, Cuba once again brought the urgent situation it faces—and its sovereign right to trade and purchase fuel—before the General Assembly. She praised the vote by 136 countries to debate the issue, as well as the statements made by many representatives “against that hostile policy.”

She emphasized that the United States flouts international law and the norms running relations between states. It seeks to impose its own rules, including within the Pan-American system, to exert greater interference in the continent’s countries.

Cuba has had to withstand a genocidal onslaught; when speaking of genocide, silent war, and suffocation, there is also a cognitive effect involved—specifically, the demonization of Cuba and the blaming of its government for current events. “A diabolical double game,” she declared in an interview with the program *Legitima Manana* from the *Caras y Caretas* media group. jdt/ga/ool

The Chinese spokesman dismissed Washington’s claims about alleged military installations on the island as “rumors and slander.”

July 21, 2026 — teleSUR

On July 21, the Chinese government categorically rejected US accusations regarding the alleged presence of foreign military and intelligence installations in Cuba, describing bilateral ties as legitimate and transparent.

During a press conference, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian asserted that the historical ties of cooperation between Beijing and Havana do not allow for rumors or slander.

The spokesman emphasized that the Asian nation will continue to defend the national sovereignty of its people and oppose any form of external interference in the internal affairs of states.

The Chinese government ‘s response comes after the publication of a 100-page report issued by the U.S. State Department , entitled “Cuba: The Capital of Communism in the 21st Century.”

The White House has intensified its rhetoric against the Caribbean island under the current administration led by Donald Trump, using these accusations as part of a unilateral pressure strategy that includes economic sanctions and sectoral blockades.

For its part, Havana has repeatedly denied the claims made by the White House. The Cuban government reaffirmed that its national territory does not host bases or intelligence operations of foreign powers, directly contradicting the content of the U.S. report.

Cuban authorities have described these accusations as part of a disinformation campaign aimed at justifying the tightening of unilateral measures against the island.

These discursive attacks against the island are part of an escalation of unilateral pressures by the Donald Trump Administration, which include an energy blockade against the Caribbean nation that has severely impacted the country’s  economy .

The energy blockade imposed by the United States is part of a set of coercive measures that seek to economically suffocate Cuba , in what the Cuban government denounces as a systematic violation of international law and the principles of national sovereignty.

China’s position on the current situation

Chinese spokesperson Lin Jian reiterated that China will uphold its position of defending national sovereignty and will not allow third countries to interfere in its legitimate bilateral relations with Cuba . The diplomat’s statement reflects the strategic alliance between the two nations , which have maintained diplomatic and cooperative ties for decades.

Beijing’s support for Havana in this context takes on special significance, given that China has been a key trading partner for the island amid the sanctions imposed by Washington, providing investments and assistance in strategic sectors such as energy, telecommunications, and infrastructure.

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Havana, July 21 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel denounced that the new report published by the United States Department of State resorts to lies to justify the aggression against the Caribbean nation, which is currently suffering the effects of an intensified blockade.

“The thief thinks everyone is like him,” the president paraphrased to characterize the document, promoted – he indicated – by one of the most corrupt officials in the current administration, with proven links to drug traffickers and terrorists in Florida.

Through his account on the social network X, Díaz-Canel condemned that if there is one country that has attacked, spied on and assaulted Cuba to obscene levels, it is the United States.

“The millions of dollars that are allocated annually to regime change programs in Cuba are public knowledge, appealing to both subversion and terrorism,” he exemplified.

The head of state also recalled criminal episodes against the island nation, including the introduction of plagues and diseases; hemorrhagic dengue alone claimed the lives of 101 children; the downing of a plane with 73 people on board; hotel bombings; assassination attempts; and psychological warfare.

To all of this history is added the blockade and the genocidal dimension it acquires with the current reinforcement and energy siege. There is no greater act of subversion against a state, conceived and officially described by the United States to exhaust the people and undermine their support for the Revolution, he added in his message.

He affirmed that what the Cuban Revolution has done throughout its history is to defend itself against these successive and endless aggressions, by legitimate right.

“Cuba has never acted to harm the American people, nor has it ever sought to affect the national security of that country,” he added.

He also warned that the transnational neo-McCarthyism being reinstated in the United States, from a clearly fascist current, resorts to lies to generate pretexts on which to maintain aggressions against Cuba and curtail civil liberties in the North American country.

For his part, the Caribbean island’s foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez, stressed on the same social network that this fallacy from the State Department is part of the Secretary of State’s construction of a justification to sustain his cruel and criminal economic war that punishes every Cuban family, and his aspiration to militarily attack Cuba, for which he desperately seeks the support of American citizens.

He also warned that this is further evidence of the macabre plan devised by that American politician from South Florida, who only serves the interests of those who have always paid him.

The U.S. State Department on Monday released a report titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism” that describes the island as a threat that has fostered left-wing extremism and built a network of espionage and influence to undermine U.S. interests.

Apparently, the report, which throughout its 64 pages stirs up the specter of communism and aims to plant a negative opinion matrix, is a consequence of the anti-left meeting convened in Washington by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in which representatives of at least 66 nations participated last week.

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July 15, 2026 — Belly of the Beast

Democrats to Rubio: “Show Us the Receipts”

Russian and Chinese spy bases. Hamas and Hezbollah. Terrorism. Communism.

To justify economic war on Cuba, the Trump administration is leaning on a seemingly endless list of flimsy allegations to argue that Cuba poses a threat to U.S. national security.

Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM), who traveled to Cuba last week with three other Democratic members of Congress, said none of the administration’s accusations against Cuba have been backed up.

“For all of that long list of claims, we have seen no proof,” Leger Fernández told Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández in an exclusive interview. “That’s one of the things that the American people, the American media, the American Congress needs to demand.”

Leger Fernández was on the verge of tears as she recounted visiting a Cuban hospital and hearing about the rise in infant mortality due to sanctions and the U.S. oil blockade.

“Why would we do that? Why would Americans support that?” she asked.

Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) recalled a young Cuban engineer’s message for Donald Trump: “Can you tell your president he has his foot on my neck? Either he ends my life or he pulls the foot off my neck.”

Nine million people, Ramirez continued, “feel that they’re being choked” by U.S. economic warfare.

Embassy Denies Lawmakers a Meeting

The U.S. embassy in Havana declined the congressional delegation’s request for a meeting — a response that Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) says is not normal. Pocan visited Cuba four years ago on a congressional visit, when he held extensive meetings with U.S. embassy officials.

“I don’t think they really want people to know what’s going on because they’re putting a false narrative out there,” he said.

Asked whether Cuba poses a threat to the United States, the lawmakers’ response was categorical.

“In none of the three days that we have been here have I seen that the Cuban people are a threat to the American people,” Ramirez said. “What I’ve seen is this real desire of being in solidarity with one another.”

July 10, 2026 — Belly of the Beast

On Tuesday, the UN General Assembly voted 136-9, with 30 abstentions, to hold a debate regarding the U.S. economic war against Cuba.

The result was not as lopsided as the annual vote to condemn the embargo at the UN General Assembly’s fall session, when the combined number of opposing votes and abstentions can typically be counted on one hand. The modest shift away from Cuba appears to be the result of U.S. pressure, with most of the movement coming from Europe (16 abstentions and 3 opposing votes) and Latin America (5 abstentions and 3 opposing votes). Notably, Canada, which had historically defied U.S. pressure over its relations with Cuba, abstained. Israel, as always, voted with the United States.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio had lobbied countries to prevent holding the debate at all, according to a leaked State Department cable obtained by The Nation. In addition, Rubio instructed U.S. diplomats to pressure host governments considered to be U.S. allies to criticize Cuba during the debate. Nonaligned countries were to be told to stay silent and countries that have traditionally supported ending the embargo were to be informed that “the United States will be listening very closely” to their statements on the issue.

In the end, only five countries — the United States, Czechia, Chile, Costa Rica and Paraguay — spoke critically of Cuba, while 43 countries condemned U.S. sanctions, in addition to statements on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, ASEAN and the Non-Aligned Movement.

In a remarkable denial of reality, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz insisted the U.S. embargo does not exist, and then proceeded to criticize Cuba for human rights abuses.

Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla pushed back, arguing that U.S. sanctions since 2017 have increased childhood cancer deaths while infant mortality rates have more than doubled. Rodríguez also warned that U.S. hostility toward Cuba is part of a broader pattern, calling it “a prelude to what could happen to any other country tomorrow.”

​Watch Cuba’s foreign minister call out Waltz for denying the existence of the U.S. blockade.

Havana, July 9 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez today thanked organizations, intellectuals and activists from 58 countries for their support of the manifesto against the United States’ military aggression towards the island.

Promoted by the Nuestra América Collective and supported by more than 8,840 signatures, the text also condemns the hostility of the United States against the Caribbean nation.

In a message posted on social media, the Foreign Minister described that support as a show of international solidarity with Cuba.

According to Rodríguez, the manifesto denounces the escalation of aggression against the Cuban people and the humanitarian effects that, according to its promoters, are caused by the energy blockade, secondary sanctions and the tightening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States.

The head of Cuban diplomacy stated that the pronouncement constitutes further evidence that Cuba “is not alone in this fight” and reiterated the message that “Cuba is not a threat; the blockade is.”

The manifesto remains open to new signatories through the Solidarity Without Blockade platform.

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