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The Cuban opposition leader José Daniel Ferrer criticized an article from the British newspaper The Guardian and deemed it a mistake to critique the maximum pressure policy against the Cuban regime.
“The Guardian is mistaken, and the diplomats of countries 'allied' with the US are also mistaken when they criticize the maximum pressure policy against the Castro-communist tyranny and the solidarity with the people who are victims of the oppression of this criminal regime,” Ferrer said on X.
According to the opposition leader, “the majority of Cubans support the policy of Trump, Rubio, and Hammer towards Cuba."
"The Chargé d'Affaires of the United States in Cuba, Mike Hammer, is more beloved by the Cuban people, who know and appreciate him, than all the diplomats and journalists biased in favor of the oppressive regime who pretend to be concerned about an oppressed and repressed people with whom they have not had any true gestures of solidarity," he added.
Ferrer refers to the article “Out of fuel, out of tourists, out of money: this was the week the Cuban crisis became serious”, written by Ruaridh Nicoll, correspondent in Havana for the British newspaper.
In the text, Nicoll interviews more than five senior diplomatic officials on the island from different countries, who expressed their grievances that Hammer has not shared any detailed plan for regime change beyond paralyzing the island by depriving it of oil.
The diplomats expressed their concern about how quickly the lack of fuel could lead to extreme suffering, the article states.
The text, which also includes testimonies from Cubans concerned about the consequences of the crisis, states that many of the interviewed diplomats already have plans to leave the island.
Recently, Ferrer was also very critical of fellow opposition figure Manuel Cuesta Morúa for his criticism of the Trump Administration's pressures on the Cuban regime.
"With the U.S. policy of maximum pressure against the tyranny, Cuba is not being suffocated as Cuesta Morúa claims," Ferrer said in a comment on the article where CiberCuba reported Morúa's statements that "suffocating Cuba only strengthens repression."
"The tyranny is under pressure. The aim is to save Cuba. When Obama's approach was in place, repression was at its peak. Repression increases when activism against tyranny rises, and the policy of maximum pressure is the only one that can contain the regime from repressing as it did on July 11, 2021," Ferrer asserts, in contrast to Morúa.
"Nothing could be further from the truth. Tyranny is cowardly, and when it knows there will be no consequences, it suppresses with even greater force. The increase in repression at this moment is due to the rise in activism, and if the U.S. shows that things are very serious and that as repression increases, the punishment will be greater, they will ultimately be restrained," he added.
"And if Europeans and Canadians also adopted a maximum pressure policy, it would be contained more quickly. The U.S. must continue with its current policy. It is the most supportive of the Cuban people and the democratic opposition," he concluded.
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