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La Paz, Jul 2 (Prensa Latina) Bolivians support today the rejection expressed by President Luis Arce to a memorandum of the chief executive of the United States, Donald Trump, aimed at strengthening the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba.

“We join the request of the majority of the countries of the world, expressed on repeated occasions in the United Nations General Assembly and which the United States does not consider, which demand the immediate and unconditional lifting of the blockade (...)”, Arce wrote on social networks.

Referring to the memorandum, the South American head of state criticizes that it represents a new act of aggression against the Cuban people and government in what constitutes an explicit disregard for the principles of self-determination of peoples and non-interference.

The President adds that this document “(...) reinforces the violation of the human rights of a population that has resisted for more than six decades a criminal and obsolete economic, financial and commercial blockade by Yankee imperialism”.

“(...) All our solidarity with brother president @DiazCanelB and the brave people of Cuba,” concluded the Bolivian dignitary in his X account.

Referring to the issue in the newspaper El Mamoré, journalist Marco Santivañez, warns that Trump's new reprisals, including banning his fellow citizens from traveling to Cuba, constitute not only an inhumane act, but deeply cynical because it deepens the blockade.

“It is a policy of strangulation, of systematic asphyxiation, typical of the most rancid fascism (...)”, expresses the director of that press outlet.

He adds that Cuba is not alone because it does not kneel and resists.

He points out that this “criminal encirclement” will last for a long time.

Referring to the issue in the newspaper El Mamoré, journalist Marco Santivañez warns that Trump's new reprisals, which include the prohibition of his fellow citizens from traveling to Cuba, constitute not only an inhumane act, but also a deeply cynical one because it deepens the blockade.

“It is a policy of strangulation, of systematic asphyxiation, typical of the most rancid fascism (...)”, expresses the director of that press outlet.

He adds that Cuba is not alone because it does not kneel and resists.

He points out that this “criminal encirclement” has lasted for 60 years and includes years of deprivations, isolation attempts, dirty campaigns, blockades to medicines, technology and trade.

However, he maintains, Cuba is still there. Not as a nation that has been bent, but as a beacon of dignity for Latin America and the world.

Santiváñez points out that Trump's new tightening of the blockade is nothing more than the deepening of an economic war declared against a sovereign country.

“(...) And what is Cuba's crime? What crime justifies these measures? Is it being in solidarity? Is it having doctors in the most forgotten corners of the world? Is it not surrendering?” he asks.

He warns that the people do not forget that in the hardest hours, when the great centers of power hide vaccines, medicines, Cuban doctors arrive with their white coats to offer the only thing they have: life.

"Cuba does not give what it has to spare, it gives what it has. Cuba shares without calculation, without usury, without demands. And that profoundly human, profoundly revolutionary generosity is what the empire will never be able to understand," the letter concludes.