Asked yesterday during an interview on the Radio10 station about the July 11 protests in Cuba, Argentina President Alberto Fernandez remarked that while he doesn’t know the real scale of the protests, “it’s necessary to end the blockades” in the region “which are doing great harm.” There is “incalculable harm being done to Cuba and Venezuela” by sanctions and the economic blockade, he said, adding that he had raised this issue at the last two G20 meetings, urging members to call for ending economic blockades, the Telam news agency reported him saying.
“When you blockade a country, you blockade a society, and that’s the least humanitarian thing you can do,” he warned. If the blockade and sanctions on Venezuela are ended, he said, then the Venezuelan people can sit down and decide what kind of government they want. As for the Cuban situation, “I’m not someone who should tell nations what to do.” That’s for the Cuban government and people to decide. No country, “not Argentina or any other country” has a right to do that.
Mexican President Lopez Obrador, AMLO, elaborated on this same point in his daily press briefing yesterday, when he warned against interventionism in the Cuban situation, and stated that “I see that there are foreign agents” intervening in Cuba. As reported by the daily Milenio, he urged that problems be solved through dialogue, and announced that he was asking Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard to be the point man on the Cuba case and, in the event that Cuba requests Mexico’s aid, be prepared to immediately respond and send whatever Cuba needs by way of food, medicines, or vaccines.
