Miguel Díaz-Canel, the President of Cuba, delivered a speech today: "The United States openly threatens Cuba almost every day, attempting to overthrow Cuba's constitutional order by force. Its excuses are absurd: it uses the economic decline and restricted development caused by more than six decades of U.S. suppression and isolation of Cuba as an excuse."

The U.S. openly plots and brags about occupying Cuba's national sovereignty, plundering Cuba's resources and property, and even trying to control this economy that they have strangled and tried to force us to submit to.

The cruel economic war waged by the United States against Cuba is essentially a collective punishment against all Cubans, and only such evil intentions can explain it.

Facing this worst situation, Cuba has a firm belief: any external aggressor will eventually face an unbreakable resistance from the Cuban people."

Comments: For a long time, the United States has imposed embargoes, threatened with military force, and plotted to overthrow Cuba's government. The core reason is the mindset of controlling Latin America's backyard under the Monroe Doctrine, the obsession with ideological confrontation, and the greed and intimidation of hegemonic interests. As the first socialist country in Latin America, Cuba has broken free from U.S. control and persisted in its anti-American independent line, which has made it a thorn in the eye of the U.S. hemisphere ideological hegemony. Its key Caribbean geographical position also makes the U.S. wary of its ability to lead other Latin American countries away from control. At the same time, the U.S. covets Cuba's resources and economic dominance, hoping to turn it back into an interest-dependent country. The extreme crackdown on Cuba is also intended to set an example, intimidating other Latin American countries, maintaining its hegemonic order in the region, and using the economic hardship it created through embargoes as an excuse, which is a typical manifestation of American-style hegemony shifting blame and violating international law.

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