{"id":140377,"date":"2026-05-09T07:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/cuba-denies-rubios-claim-about-u-s-humanitarian-aid-offer\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:02:46","slug":"cuba-denies-rubios-claim-about-u-s-humanitarian-aid-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/cuba-denies-rubios-claim-about-u-s-humanitarian-aid-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba denies Rubio\u2019s claim about U.S. humanitarian aid offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HAVANA, May 8 \u2013 Cuba on Friday denied remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio about an alleged U.S. offer of 100 million dollars in humanitarian aid to the island country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on X that Rubio had fabricated the claim to justify Washington\u2019s actions against Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio told reporters on Friday that the United States had provided 6 million dollars in humanitarian aid to Cuba through Caritas, a Catholic Church agency, and had offered the Cuban government 100 million dollars, but it refused to distribute it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere have they gone? What would he had used them for?\u201d Rodriguez wrote, dismissing the claim.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez said what is publicly known is the billions of dollars that the U.S. economic warfare is costing Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is also well aware of the ruthless human damage caused by that warfare and the restrictions in terms of revenues, technologies, food, fuel and medicines it imposes,\u201d Rodriguez added.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAVANA, May 8 \u2013 Cuba on Friday denied remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio about an alleged U.S. offer of 100 million dollars in humanitarian aid to the island country. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on X that Rubio had fabricated the claim to justify Washington\u2019s actions against Cuba. Rubio told reporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}