{"id":3640,"date":"2026-05-15T12:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/times509.com\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:56:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:56:30","slug":"the-president-of-cuba-believes-that-lifting-the-blockade-by-washington-would-be-a-simpler-way-to-help-the-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/the-president-of-cuba-believes-that-lifting-the-blockade-by-washington-would-be-a-simpler-way-to-help-the-island\/","title":{"rendered":"The president of Cuba believes that lifting the &#8216;blockade&#8217; by Washington would be a &#8216;simpler&#8217; way to help the island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, whose country said it was ready to consider $100 million in aid proposed by Washington, said on Thursday that lifting the &#8216;blockade&#8217; imposed by the United States would be a &#8216;simpler&#8217; way to help the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, whose country said it was ready to consider $100 million in aid proposed by Washington, said on Thursday that lifting the &#8220;blockade&#8221; imposed by the United States would be a &#8220;simpler&#8221; way to help the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It would be possible to mitigate the damage in a simpler and faster way by lifting or easing the blockade, since it is well known that the humanitarian situation (of the island) is coldly calculated and provoked&#8221; by Washington, Miguel Diaz-Canel said on the social network X.Cuba has been subjected since the end of January to an energy blockade by Washington and has been facing for several days a very serious energy crisis that is causing endless power outages and the growing exasperation of the inhabitants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, whose country said it was ready to consider $100 million in aid proposed by Washington, said on Thursday that lifting the &#8216;blockade&#8217; imposed by the United&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow67bgCw:productID":"","_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_ayudawp_aiss_exclude":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-3640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3642,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions\/3642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}