Former President and Republican candidate for the upcoming US presidential election, Donald Trump, intends to maintain his restrictive policy toward Cuba if he is elected President for a second term.
In statements offered to Martรญ Noticias, Jaime Florez, Spanish-language spokesman for Trump's campaign, said that the Republican insists on continuing with his hardline strategy towards the island deployed during his previous term and focused fundamentally on "reversing the normalization of diplomatic relations that Barack Obama opened in exchange for nothing."
Regarding the sanctions and embargo imposed on Cuba, he said that their elimination is subject to the actions of the Cuban government.
In this regard, he commented: "If Cuba wants to resolve these problems, it has to do the three basic things that we have been asking for for a long time."
The main demands of the Cuban regime are the release of political prisoners without setting conditions, the holding of free elections with international observation where several political parties come together, as well as putting an end to its efforts to export its failed model of revolution to other nations, especially in Latin America.
Regarding the impact of the blockade, Florez stressed: "This embargo is a total fallacy. Cuba does not buy as many things from any other country as it does from the United States, so this story about the blockade has to end."
He also called the alleged existence of Chinese spy stations on Cuban territory unacceptable, arguing: "There can be no military bases in Cuba or anywhere else in the hemisphere."
Trump was officially sworn in as the presidential candidate on Monday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
This achievement comes after the former president was the victim of an attack on Saturday while he was holding an electoral event in the city of Butler, Pennsylvania, receiving a bullet impact that caused a wound in his right ear, a fact that has further tipped the balance in his favor ahead of the elections and from which he is taking great advantage.
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