2 legisladores dos EUA que visitam Cuba denunciam o 'bombardeio económico' da ilha sob bloqueio energético

HAVANA (AP) — Dois legisladores dos EUA pediram uma solução permanente para as crises de Cuba, depois de terem presenciado os efeitos de um bloqueio energético dos EUA, durante uma visita oficial à ilha.

Os democratas Pramila Jayapal, de Washington, e Jonathan Jackson, de Illinois, reuniram-se com o Presidente cubano Miguel Díaz-Canel, com o Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros Bruno Rodríguez e com membros do Parlamento numa viagem de cinco dias, que terminou no domingo.

Díaz-Canel escreveu na segunda-feira na plataforma X que, ao reunir-se com Jayapal e Jackson, “denunciou os danos criminosos causados pela #blockade, em particular as consequências do embargo energético imposto pela atual administração dos EUA e as suas ameaças de ações ainda mais agressivas”.

Díaz-Canel acrescentou: “Reafirmei a disponibilidade do nosso governo para manter um diálogo bilateral sério e responsável e encontrar soluções para as nossas diferenças existentes.”

Tanto os EUA como Cuba reconheceram recentemente que as conversações estão em curso ao mais alto nível, mas não foram divulgados quaisquer detalhes.

Jayapal disse aos jornalistas que acredita que os passos recentes tomados por Cuba, como abrir a economia a certos investimentos de cubano-americanos residentes no estrangeiro; o anúncio recente de que mais de 2,000 prisioneiros seriam indultados; e a chegada de uma equipa do FBI para colaborar na investigação de um tiroteio fatal envolvendo uma embarcação com bandeira dos EUA, “indicam que chegou o momento para termos uma negociação real entre os dois países e para reverter a falhada política dos EUA de décadas, um remanescente da Guerra Fria que já não serve nem o povo americano nem o povo cubano.”

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In late January, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impor tariffs on any country that would sell or provide oil to Cuba, although he made an exception for a Russian ship that reached the island last week with 730,000 barrels of crude oil. It was the first petroleum shipment in three months to dock in Cuba, which produces only 40% of the oil it needs.

“This is cruel collective punishment — effectively an economic bombing of the infrastructure of the country — that has produced permanent damage. It must stop immediately,” Jayapal and Jackson said in a statement released Sunday.

Critical oil shipments from Venezuela were halted after the U.S. attacked the South American country in early January and arrested its leader, Nicolas Maduro.

Cubans already suffering from five years of economic crisis have acutely felt the impact of the fuel shortage: national blackouts, gasoline shortages and rationing, lack of public transport, cuts in working hours, paralyzed hospitals and surgeries, and suspension of flights, among other things.

Russia has promised a second delivery of petroleum, although it’s not clear when it might arrive. Experts have said that the first shipment could produce about 180,000 barrels of diesel, enough to feed Cuba’s daily demand for nine or 10 days.

Jayapal said that while such shipments are critical, they are only temporary solutions: “We need a longer, permanent solution for the Cuban people and the American people.”

Meanwhile, Jackson compared the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz off Iran’s coast to the oil blockade in Cuba, adding that the island “is the most sanctioned part of Earth.”

“Our government is fighting to keep the Strait of Hormuz open so there is a free flow of oil around the world. We want, for humanitarian reasons, a free flow of oil, fuel, and energy in our own hemisphere,” he said.

Jackson and Jayapal said they would prepare a report and continue to work on initiatives proposed by fellow members of the U.S. House of Representatives to lift sanctions against Cuba to alleviate the ongoing humanitarian crisis.