The U.S. government intends to impose submission or aggression as options for its relations with LatAm countries.

Cuba advocates strengthening the cooperation of Latin American and Caribbean nations to face the threats and new challenges arising from the executive orders of the Donald Trump administration.

Havana, Cuba.- Speaking the day before, virtually, at the 12th extraordinary summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), President Miguel Díaz-Canel denounced that Washington uses these measures as weapons of blackmail and political pressure.

He warned that the U.S. government intends to impose submission or aggression as options for its relations with the region's countries.

In the face of the imperialist counter-offensive, regional coordination must demand what "rightfully belongs to us." He urged a response marked by unity and global solidarity.

In this sense, he pointed out the priority of strengthening an ALBA-TCP economic agenda, based on complementarity, which takes advantage of each country’s potentialities.

The Cuban head of state emphasized the importance of the Alliance’s Strategic Agenda 2030 and referred to promoting initiatives such as AgroALBA.

He specified that it is necessary to work bilaterally to establish modalities that contribute to increasing food production and guarantee the nutritional security of the nations in the area.

Diaz-Canel also referred to the violent and indiscriminate deportations of migrants from the United States, arbitrary detentions, and other violations, which he described as unacceptable.

He denounced that, since January 20, the new U.S. administration has shown total contempt for the Latin American and Caribbean peoples, through the use of lies, manipulation, and the use of racist epithets.

The establishment of a detention center at the illegal US naval base in Guantanamo, where they intend to imprison tens of thousands of people, constitutes a barbaric act, he said.

At the meeting, the Cuban president expressed his gratitude for the support and efforts of several governments of the region in calling for the exclusion of Cuba from the U.S. State Department’s list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism. (PL)