Cuba: “The United States has a harmful trajectory in terms of respect for human rights”

The Cuban government has criticized Washington for human rights abuses by saying that “the United States has no lessons to teach”. It has also denounced the “cruelty” of the embargo being imposed by the U.S. for 60 years.

“The United States has a harmful trajectory in terms of respect for human rights, a harmful trajectory in terms of democratic rights for its people, and the United States has no lessons to teach anyone,” Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Fernandez de Cossio said in an interview with AFP.

“The United States has no right to do this, especially not to manipulate a subject as sensitive as human rights to attack countries with which it does not agree”, he adds. , acknowledging, however, that “all countries, all of them, including Cuba, have much to do to improve their human rights”.

These statements come on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the American embargo against Cuba.

Fernandez de Cossio asserted that Washington uses false pretexts  to justify a policy rejected by the international community and a large part of the American people”.

Basma Qaddour