Photos: Cuba celebrates May Day amid US threats | Objections

Cuban energy and oil workers march in Havana to celebrate International Workers’ Dayor May Day, as promised by the government what are you doing? against the growth of US pressure which is seriously affecting the economy.

A ninety-four-year-old former leader Raúl Castro and President Miguel Diaz-Canel participated in the celebrations in the capital on Friday, while the administration of US President Donald Trump also announced sanctions.

The White House statement said the sanctions would cover those involved in security operations, as well as “supporters of the Cuban government”. The statement added, without evidence, that the Caribbean island is a “safe haven for international terrorist groups” such as the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.

The US power outage has already disrupted the country’s struggling economy and contributed to the spread. power outage.

“We are living in difficult times,” said Yunier Merino Reyes, an accountant at Electric Union who joined Friday’s march to celebrate his colleagues. “We are working very hard, hard and continuously – day and night – to provide electricity to the people who need it,” he told the Associated Press.

The Trump administration has repeatedly threatened Cuba with military aggression in addition to economic sanctions.

“Today Cuba has shown once again that the people do not give up, and that we will defend our country with nails, even though we want peace,” Milagros Morales, a 34-year-old from Havana who took part in the march, told Reuters.