00:00Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez announced on Thursday that the United States' blockade
00:04against his country constitutes a genocide and collective punishment against the population.
00:09During an interview, the diplomat considered the rise in infant mortality in the Caribbean
00:14Island as one of the most painful statistics aggravated by the U.S. deliberate coercive
00:19measures.
00:19In this sense, Rodríguez denounced that there are currently nearly 7,000 containers of medicines,
00:25medical devices, and other vital supplies that remain blocked in different ports around
00:30the world, unable to reach the islands due to Washington's siege.
00:33The Cuban diplomat also denounced that the energy blockade and its deeply humanitarian
00:37impacts amount to an act of genocide, according to all international conventions.
