U.S. state secretary is lying in denying fuel blockade against Cuba: Cuban FM

HAVANA, June 21 — Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla said Saturday that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was lying and contradicting U.S. President Donald Trump by denying Washington’s oil blockade against Cuba.

“When the U.S. secretary of state talks about incompetence in Cuba, he should be asked why he lies chronically and contradicts the U.S. president and his spokeswoman by denying the existence of the total fuel blockade that the White House acknowledges,” Rodriguez wrote on X.

Rodriguez said every reference Rubio makes to the situation in Cuba includes “an attempt to avoid any responsibility and present himself as a savior.”