00:07We continue with more information about the United Nations General Assembly.
00:12The General Assembly, Deputy Secretary General, in about three hours time,
00:21it will be exactly 66 years since Fidel Castro Ruz, in a memorable speech, spoke at this event.
00:33The philosophy of the spoils is disappearing, and we will see disappear the philosophy of war.
00:41We will see colonies disappear, the exploitation of peoples by monopolies disappear,
00:48and humanity will then have achieved a genuine stage of progress.
00:55However, it is alarming to see the advance of expansionism, usurpation, plunder, conquest,
01:06as well as military and economic aggressions.
01:09The U.S. government aspiration to impose peace through force is unrealizable.
01:18The fundamental pillars of international law and the United Nations Organization,
01:23such as the sovereign equality among states, are under permanent attack.
01:30The genocidal crime of Zionism against the Palestinian people,
01:36the pirate attacks against vessels, and the extrajudicial executions in the Caribbean Sea,
01:44and some areas in the Pacific, the military aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,
01:50and the war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, are new expressions of this atrocity.
01:59They are also a reflection of the crisis of identity and relevance imposed on the United Nations Organization,
02:08and even on this General Assembly, the most universal, democratic, and representative body of the international community.
02:19We are convinced of the need to preserve and strengthen the United Nations.
02:27This is indispensable as we make it more democratic and effective and closer to its peoples.
02:34As is well known, in Cuba, we are facing a multidimensional aggression from the United States government,
02:42a permanent, abusive, and ruthless hostility that has lasted for almost seven decades.
02:51Since January 2026, this aggression has strengthened and become more cruel and more dangerous,
02:58with the imposition of an energy blockade that, by resorting to intimidation and coercion,
03:05prevents any country from exporting fuel to Cuba, an equivalent to a naval blockade,
03:13which is classified under international law as an act of war.
03:19Through the adoption of successive measures, the Government of the United States has been applying new prohibitions on all countries,
03:28with regard to products and services that cannot be exported or transported to Cuba.
03:35More than 7,000 containers remain stranded in different ports,
03:41many of them loaded with foodstuffs, medicines and medical devices,
03:46and some of them have even been paid for by private Cuban companies.
03:51It is an unusual and unprecedented action.
03:56A superpower unilaterally deprives all states of their right to export the commodities that they wish to the country that
04:07they wish to export them to,
04:09and continuously and comprehensively violates freedom of trade and navigation.
04:15Added to this is the intimidation of entrepreneurs of different countries,
04:20so that they abandon against their will their investments and businesses in Cuba.
04:27The obstacles and tricks to prevent the arrival in Cuba of absolutely legitimate commercial shipments,
04:36the pressures to prevent the entry of visitors and tourists,
04:40and the efforts aimed at restricting as much as possible Cuba's legitimate access to financing, technology and markets.
04:52It has even gone as far as the United States exerting unseen pressure on sovereign governments,
04:59so that they renounce the medical services they requested from us for the benefit of their respective populations,
05:06and which are offered by Cuban professionals altruistically because the US government is opposed to such cooperation,
05:15regardless of the impact and harm that this may cause to those populations if they are deprived of free medical
05:24quality medical care,
05:26that is to say deprived of an elemental human right.
05:31Last Thursday, the State Department convened, within this General Assembly,
05:40a humiliating meeting specifically with the states that are the recipients of this cooperation,
05:47in order to apply pressure and make threats.
05:50According to the US Secretary of State,
05:53the official policy of the United States is to shut down every relief valve from Cuba,
06:00to block every possible way out and eliminate any form of survival for Cuba.
06:08The impact of such an ironclad and ruthless siege as a human face.
06:12The economic warfare is aimed against the people.
06:15It harms the Cuban people as a whole.
06:17It takes a toll on human lives.
06:20It causes individual and collective pain.
06:23It causes anguish.
06:25It is not collateral damage.
06:28It is a policy deliberately designed to wound the deepest sensibilities of Cuban families,
06:37disturb their well-being and hurt the dignity of the people.
06:40It is an act of collective punishment,
06:45a crime also proscribed by international humanitarian law.
06:51The obvious short-term immediate goal pursued by such a policy
06:55is to induce a humanitarian crisis in Cuba, which is also a crime.
07:01The government of the United States and the US State Department
07:06have been forced to recognize the suffering inflicted on the Cuban people,
07:11but they have the impudence and cynicism to insist in putting the blame on the government of Cuba.
07:18The executioner is blaming the victim.
07:22They are following the formula recommended by the State Department since 1960 in the infamous Mallory Memorandum,
07:31which established as an official policy, and it's in force up until today,
07:36the overthrowing of the Cuban government through the economic suffocation
07:40and the extreme suffering of the Cuban people out of material shortages, hunger and desperation.
07:49The President of the United States declared in this room a few days ago that Cuba is a failed state.
07:56Well, if that were the case, why did they have to impose a fuel blockade?
08:03Why did they impose secondary sanctions?
08:07Why do they have to threaten, persecute and exert pressures on all other states on the planet?
08:15The President of the United States also recognized that his government is putting on Cuba the biggest pressure ever applied.
08:25And a few months before he said, and I quote,
08:28all that is left is to go in and destroy everything.
08:33The threat of the use of military force against Cuba persists.
08:37This behavior is a violation of international law and a serious infringement of the San Francisco Charter.
08:47Should it materialize, it would be a major crime.
08:53It would cause the death of Cuban and American youths, as well as huge destruction.
09:01Let's hope that this never happens.
09:04Cuba will exercise with full resolve and energy its legitimate right to defend itself.
09:12This aggression is being accompanied by a brutal media and cognitive warfare aimed not just against the Cuban people,
09:22but also against the citizens of the United States and the Internet and international public opinion.
09:29It is characterized by its gross and brazen attempts to interfere in the internal affairs of Cuba,
09:36which is another also another international crime.
09:40This is a precautionary effect that makes no longer human rights.
09:40I believe that we are faced with human rights.
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