The solidarity group repudiated that Trump urged Cuba to submit to Washington’s designs or “abide by the consequences,” including a possible military intervention.

The Coordinator maintained that these threats ignore the history and international role of the Caribbean country.

“It is obvious that this president ignores and has not the slightest idea of what Cuba is, of what Cuba represents, of what Cuba has done in the world and for the world,” states the statement.

The Ecuadorian organization also criticized what it considers an imperialist position of Washington and said that the United States is trying to reverse structural changes in the global scenario.

According to the statement, Trump uses “aggression, threats, blackmail, lies; force and not reason”.

In the text, the Ecuadorian group defended Cuba’s international role in areas such as health, education and culture, despite the blockade imposed by the United States for more than six decades.

“Cuba has given moral examples when, instead of weapons, it has sent health and medical programs to the most needy countries in the world,” said the Coordinator.

The document also cites statements by Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who said: “Cuba is a free, independent and sovereign nation. No one tells us what to do. Cuba does not attack, it is attacked by the United States for 66 years”.

The Coordinator urged the democratic and progressive forces of the world to unite in support of the island and warned that this type of threat “endangers not only world peace, but the very life, development and progress of humanity”.

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