Cuba Tells UN: Rising US Pressure Threatens International Law and Regional Stability

The useful part

He called for the United Nations to be preserved and strengthened while becoming "more democratic and effective" and closer to the peoples it serves. Rodríguez Parrilla accused Washington of imposing what he called an "energy blockade", intimidating countries against exporting fuel to Cuba and placing new restrictions on goods and services destined for the island. More than 7,000 containers were stranded in ports, he said, including shipments of food, medicines and medical equipment, some already paid for by Cuban private companies.

How it works

• He pointed to a new programme adopted by the National People's Power Assembly embracing new economic practices, actors and concepts, while maintaining the country's constitutional framework and socialist...
• "The economic warfare is aimed against the people," he said, describing the impact on Cuban families as deliberate "collective punishment".
• Rodríguez Parrilla rejected assertions that Cuba represented a threat to US national security and argued that Washington's policies were intended to undermine Cuban sovereignty.
• Changes at home The Foreign Minister also said Cuba was pursuing changes that would bring " transformations" to its economic and social model in response to the difficulties it faces.
• The process, he said, would seek to respond to people's needs "with the greatest possible social justice" while defending Cuba's sovereignty and right to self-determination.

What to take from it

"The law of the jungle cannot be the future of humanity," he said, urging countries to restore the UN's role before the Organization risked going down in history as "an unrealized dream of great promises". Rodríguez Parrilla rejected the Monroe Doctrine and what he called attempts at "militarization, intervention or domination" in Latin America and the Caribbean, recalling the region's 2014 proclamation as a Zone of Peace. Concluding, the Foreign Minister warned that a world in which powerful countries imposed their will through intimidation and coercion was "dangerous and unsustainable".

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Cuba warns against 'law of the jungle' as Foreign Minister denounces US pressure — Global Issues Cuba warns against 'law of the jungle' as Foreign Minister denounces US pressure UN Photo/Loey Felipe Foreign Minister Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla of Cuba addresses the General Debate of the UN General Assembly's 81st session. Saturday, September 26, 2026 UN News Cuba's Foreign Minister warned the UN General Assembly on Saturday that escalating military and economic pressure in Latin America and the Caribbean was threatening international law, while accusing the United States of intensifying a decades-long campaign to isolate and weaken his country. Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla said the international system was witnessing an alarming rise in "expansionism, usurpation, plunder" and military and economic aggression, arguing that fundamental principles of the UN Charter, including the sovereign equality of States, were under sustained attack.

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