Mr President, honourable colleagues,
For over 60 years, Cuba has lived under a United States embargo — a criminal embargo that has already caused too much suffering to the population and has prevented the free development of the island.
Today, however, we are witnessing a new and dangerous escalation: since 29 January, the Trump administration has been attempting to strangle this country definitively with an unprecedented energy blockade. The consequences are severe. The humanitarian crisis worsens every day: blackouts, shortages of essential goods, hospitals without medicines.
We are not talking about abstract geopolitical disputes: we are talking about the real lives of 11 million men, women, and children. This is a collective punishment inflicted on an entire people, a practice that is illegal under international law.
But we know this: for Trump, international law is worthless, and he will do everything in his power to suffocate the freedom and self-determination of the Cuban people, guilty only of living in what he considers his own backyard.
And in the face of this arrogance and inhumanity, Europe remains silent once again. A shameful, complicit, cowardly silence. What more must happen before we understand that the United States represents a danger to all humanity?
Solidarity with the Cuban people.