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 blacklist public, featuring the names of individuals and institutions whose only crime is serving Cuba, standing against 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 genocides."

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

Fernández also stated that this policy has not shown the ability to "bend the moral and political will of Cubans" and affirmed 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 was also designated, along with Noemí Rabaza Fernández and Leima Martínez Freire, linked to 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 corresponded to different individuals and entities and were based on different legal grounds than the sanctions imposed on Cubans.