Díaz-Canel responds to new sanctions from Washington: "We will know how to resist and overcome."

The Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel responded this Thursday to the new round of sanctions announced by the United States against companies, institutions, and officials on the island, stating that Cuba "will know how to resist and overcome."

“The executioners seem to have chosen Thursdays to make their blacklists public, containing the names of individuals and institutions whose only crime is serving Cuba, resisting the genocidal blockade,” wrote Díaz-Canel on X.

The leader concluded his message with another direct criticism of Washington: “We will know how to resist and overcome. And the U.S. will remain on the shameful list of genocidaires.”

Also, Carlos Fernández de Cossío reacted this Thursday to the measures and accused the U.S. government of frequently acting "almost weekly" to cause the Cuban people "the greatest possible harm."

Fernández also stated that this policy has not proven capable of "bending the moral and political will of the Cubans" and asserted that it does not serve the interests of the American people either.

The statements were made after the United States added eight Cuban state-owned companies, the Ministry of Construction (MICONS), and three officials linked to the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) to the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN).

The eight companies included were Acinox Comercial, Acorec, Coratur, Transimport, Consumimport, the Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara Nickel Company, Metalcuba, and Geominsal.

Fernando González Llort, Noemí Rabaza Fernández, and Leima Martínez Freire were also designated, associated with the ICAP.

The institution itself had previously been sanctioned by Washington.

The designations related to Cuba were adopted under Executive Order 14404.

The update from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) also included designations related to terrorism and drug trafficking, but these pertained to different individuals and entities and were based on legal grounds distinct from the sanctions imposed on Cubans.