00:00In Cuba, President Miguel DĂaz-Canel stressed that the United States' blockade is brutal and criminal,
00:05affirming that the Cuban people don't deserve this kind of harassment.
00:09The president denounced that the greatest security of the blockade is in long-standing nature,
00:16lasting more than 60 years now, pointing out the cynicism that is accompanied by a manipulative narrative
00:24that seeks to hide the true culprit.
00:26The president further explained that after the second half of 2019,
00:31the blockade greatly intensified when President Trump imposed 240 new measures,
00:37ramped out financial and oil persecution, and also included Cuba on the list of states' sponsors of terrorism.
00:44In this sense, the Trump administration has hardened the measures even more since the start of this year,
00:51while the international community demands an end to the criminal blockade.
01:00The blockade today is brutal.
01:03It is simply criminal.
01:06It is something the Cuban people do not deserve.
01:09I believe that the most cruel aspect of the blockade is long-standing nature.
01:15It has been over 60 years of the blockade.
01:20And the greatest cynicism is how that blockade is accompanied by a narrative that attempts to hide the true culprit
01:28and to distort that reality and to distort that reality.
01:33Blaming what they have called the violent state
01:38and refusing to take true responsibility for their own policies of maximum pressure,
01:43which have now unleashed a crisis of unprecedented magnitude.
01:47The expression...
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