Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla on Monday denounced the U.S. war on Cuba as collective punishment. He said the blockade punished the people, not the government, and cost the country $8 billion in the last year.
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Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla: The data show infant mortality rising from 4 per 1,000 live births in 2018 to 9.9 in 2025. These are children. They are not numbers.
Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla: The blockade doesn’t punish a government, it punishes the daily lives of an entire people. It’s an act of collective punishment that means living for months with just two or three hours of electricity, or even less, food rotting, the heat keeping people from sleeping, parents fanning their babies, children doing their homework in the dark, young people without internet access or recreation, grandparents without TV, sometimes even without radio. The entire family life is being disrupted.
Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla: If Cuba could import fuel and diesel for the generators used in distributed power generation, blackouts could be reduced to a minimum. But the oil blockade prevents these imports.
Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla: The estimated cost of the blockade is $8.083 billion between March 1, 2025, and February 28, 2026. That is a record high, above last year’s record. The damage caused by the blockade increased by 7%, surpassing the record set a year earlier. The accumulated damage over decades of the blockade amounts to $178.7 billion.
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