{"id":7715,"date":"2022-10-06T12:06:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T12:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=7715"},"modified":"2022-10-06T12:06:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T12:06:41","slug":"cubas-foreign-minister-us-hostility-towards-cuba-hurts-both-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cubas-foreign-minister-us-hostility-towards-cuba-hurts-both-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba\u2019s Foreign Minister: US Hostility Towards Cuba Hurts Both Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"747\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5OH9Vp0eLmQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=676&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cuba\u2019s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodr\u00edguez sat down with BT\u2019s Rania Khalek following the UN General Assembly to discuss why so many countries oppose the U.S. blockade, how U.S. official hostility towards Cuba hurts both countries and his own personal history volunteering in the liberation struggle of Angola against racist apartheid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba\u2019s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodr\u00edguez sat down with BT\u2019s Rania Khalek following the UN General Assembly to discuss why so many countries oppose the U.S. blockade, how U.S. official hostility towards Cuba hurts both countries and his own personal history volunteering in the liberation struggle of Angola against racist apartheid. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":7716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,7,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-us-aggression","category-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6067,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/top-cuban-vaccine-maker-how-we-took-on-covid-despite-u-s-siege\/","url_meta":{"origin":7715,"position":0},"title":"Top Cuban Vaccine Maker: How We Took on COVID Despite U.S. Siege","author":"Editorial Team","date":"March 28, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pBHqe-9IEZY BT\u2019s Rania Khalek was on the ground in Havana, Cuba, and spoke to Dr. Vicente V\u00e9rez Bencomo, General director of the Finlay vaccine institute in Havana, which developed Cuba\u2019s highly effective COVID-19 vaccine Soberana. 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