Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel condemned the United States' economic pressure campaign against Havana as a coldly calculated genocide on Saturday, speaking at events marking the 73rd anniversary of the assault on the Moncada barracks.
Díaz-Canel said the maximum-pressure policy pursued under President Donald Trump since January — including an oil blockade and sweeping sanctions — has brought a drastic collapse in tourism, an exodus of foreign companies, and a depletion of hard currency. He linked the tightened embargo and financial siege to worsening power-grid failures, citing rising infant mortality, medicine shortages, and crippled hospitals as consequences.
The energy crisis has produced blackouts lasting up to 30 hours in Havana and several days in the provinces. The most recent US sanctions, announced on 23 July, targeted Cuba's overseas medical missions programme.