By: Eleazar C. Bayogar
Monrovia-The Cuban Embassy near Monrovia through its Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Dr. Indira López Argüelles has exerted immensely on the level of economic stagnation the country has endured since the United States of America enforced a blockade economically affecting the livelihood of the people of the Latin American nation.
Since the inception of this blockade, the country has suffered not only economic deprivation, but also that of medical, Energy and Military threats.
In a press conference organized by the Cuban Embassy in Liberia yesterday, and a message along with a report presented to the press by ambassador Argüelles, Cuba is said to have reached an enormous amount of damages amounting to a record figure of approximately USD 8,083,300,000 (Eight billion, eighty three million, three hundred thousand United States dollars) as of the period March 2025 to February 2026.
The report also highlighted that this year alone, two Executive orders have been issued to further exacerbate the situation.
The January 29, 2026 EXECUTIVE ORDER 14380 (ENERGY PRESSURE) which established a mechanism of additional tariffs on imports from countries supplying oil to Cuba directly or indirectly, and the May 1, 2026 EXECUTIVE ORDER 14404 (EXPANDED SANCTIONS EXPOSURE) which seeks to expand the framework for measures affecting certain foreign persons and entities connected to designated strategic sectors and support to the Cuban state respectively.
The embassy in its message has called out U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio for being principally responsible for what they termed as a “macabre policy” against the Cuban nation and its devastating humanitarian and economic consequences.
“Cuba is not a threat, the blockade is!”, a quote on the cover page of the report reads. The outcome of the blockade has caused deaths due to lack of medicines and functioning medical facilities, with more than 100,000 surgeries pending, about 118,000 cancer patients including 1,200 children who cannot receive proper treatment, and an infant mortality rate that rose to 9.3 percent per live births compared with 5% being the maximum previous years.
The blockade or “US embargo” as they call it, is a collection of laws, regulations and executive measures that restricts economic dealings with Cuba, to include: financial transactions, trade in goods and services, investment in Cuban state-owned enterprises and other restricted entities, foreign companies and financial intermediaries, etc.
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