Cuba denounces the US blockade as "inhumane collective punishment" The Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez, condemned this Thursday (5), at the Ibero-American summit in Madrid, the tightening of the American blockade against the island. According to Rodríguez, Washington has increased the economic and energy pressure and has also begun to target entities that maintain commercial relations with Cuba. The chancellor classified this policy as a war of economic strangulation imposing collective suffering on the Cuban population.