AMLO calls for the end of the embargo on Cuba after the protests

AMLO: The blockade of Cuba must be suspended 2:59

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The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, called on the United States to suspend the trade embargo against Cuba as a humanitarian gesture to help the country, after protests against the growing economic crisis and the lack of of freedoms that shook the island nation on Sunday.

"The truth is that, if you wanted to help Cuba, the first thing you should do is suspend the blockade against Cuba as requested by most of the countries of the world. That would be a truly humanitarian gesture. No country in the world should be fenced off, blocked; that is the most contrary there can be to human rights, "AMLO said about Cuba.

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"You cannot create a fence, isolate an entire town for political reasons and for whatever reason. Nobody can, nobody has the right to make those decisions that affect the towns," added López Obrador from Villahermosa, Tabasco.

AMLO asks that there be no interference in Cuba

The president said that they will continue to monitor the situation and asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard, if necessary to create a humanitarian bridge, "a bridge to help the people of Cuba."

He also said that he respectfully exhorted "not to opt for the use of force, of violence, that Cubans resolve these issues peacefully."

AMLO said that many other countries in the region face problems and that economic crises should not be politicized.

"We must not use humanitarian support as a flag to interfere in matters that only correspond to solve the Cubans," he said, and then added: "We are going to be vigilant and willing to help the brotherly people of Cuba."

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  Protests in Cuba and support in Miami

In a nationally televised speech, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said on Sunday that U.S. trade sanctions had created economic misery on the Communist Party-ruled island after thousands of Cubans left at the streets in infrequent protests on Sunday.

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