Cuba vehemently rejects the U.S. Presidential Memorandum of June 2025 that intensifies the economic blockade, denouncing it as an imperialist tool aimed at undermining Cuban sovereignty and socialism.

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On July 1, 2025, Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a strong declaration condemning the United States government’s reissued Presidential Memorandum, unveiled on June 30, 2025, which reinforces the economic blockade against the island nation.

This new document is a revision of the original National Security Presidential Memorandum No. 5, first introduced by the Trump administration in June 2017, marking a continuation of hostile policies designed to suffocate Cuba’s economy and political autonomy.

The 2017 Memorandum laid the groundwork for some of the harshest measures seen in decades, including near-total travel bans for U.S. citizens to Cuba, aggressive targeting of fuel supplies, and restrictions on remittances vital to Cuban families.

It also sanctioned pressure on third countries hosting Cuban medical personnel, part of Cuba’s internationally recognized solidarity programs, and authorized lawsuits against foreign investors in Cuba under the Helms-Burton Act framework.

These policies have been maintained and even intensified over eight years, transcending administrations, including the current Biden government. The Cuban government attributes much of the island’s economic hardships and challenges in recovery and development directly to these sustained sanctions.

The New Memorandum: A Renewed Offensive Against Cuban Sovereignty and Socialism

The recently reissued Memorandum reiterates the same aggressive objectives: to deepen the economic siege and provoke shortages among the Cuban people, aiming to destabilize the country and impose U.S. hegemony. It flagrantly violates international law and numerous United Nations resolutions that have repeatedly called for an end to the blockade since 1992.

The document cynically invokes rhetoric about democracy, human rights, and religious freedom,concepts historically contradicted by Washington’s own record of intervention and coercion. It openly declares the intent to dismantle Cuba’s socialist system and forcibly convert its economy to capitalism, betraying the true imperialist nature of the policy.

#Cuba 🇨🇺 rechaza el Memorando Presidencial de EEUU que endurece el bloqueo económico.

📌 Declaración del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores.

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— Cancillería de Cuba (@CubaMINREX) July 2, 2025

The text reads: Cuba rejects the U.S. Presidential Memorandum that tightens the economic blockade.
Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Cuban government emphasizes that these measures are not acts of goodwill but calculated aggression by a corrupt, anti-Cuban faction within U.S. politics. Despite Cuba’s peaceful, stable, and internationally cooperative stance, the blockade persists as a tool to break the Cuban people’s political will and sovereignty.

Cuba’s leadership reaffirms its commitment to defend its national project, built on the exercise of sovereign rights and the principle of self-determination, against these ongoing imperialist assaults.

Since 1992, the United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly demanded the end of the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial blockade against Cuba. The Cuban declaration reiterates this call, highlighting the blockade’s illegality and the urgent need for global solidarity to dismantle this unjust policy.

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