‘A crime against Cuba’

CUBAN Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago Gustavo Veliz has warned that supporting the Uni­ted States’ narrative against Cuba amounts to complicity in a policy that could cost human lives.

He yesterday condemned Wa­shington’s economic blockade as a crime and accused the US of deli­berately engineering a humanitarian crisis on the island.

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However, Veliz stopped short of directly criticising Trinidad and Tobago for its decision to break with decades of diplomatic tradition and vote alongside the United States against a United Nations resolution calling for an end to the embargo.