The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex) rejects the decision of the United States to imprison migrants at the Guantánamo Naval Base, an illegally occupied Cuban territory.

In a statement published on its website, the island’s Foreign Ministry stresses that the provision, announced by US President Donald Trump, is a demonstration of the brutality with which that government is acting.

In this regard, the head of the Minrex, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, recalled in X that the US government created torture and indefinite detention centres in the enclave of Guantánamo.

He added that the decision to imprison migrants there shows contempt for the human condition and international law.

In view of its importance, we transmit the full statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

Cuba rejects the decision announced by the President of the United States to use the Guantanamo Naval Base to imprison tens of thousands of migrants he has proposed to forcibly expel. It is a demonstration of the brutality with which that government is acting to supposedly correct problems created by the economic and social conditions of that country, the government’s own management and its foreign policy, including hostility towards countries of origin.

Many of the people the US is expelling or intends to expel are victims of the government’s own plundering policies and fill labour needs in agriculture, construction, industry, services and various sectors of the US economy. Others are the result of facilitated border entry, selective, politically motivated rules that welcome them as refugees, and the socio-economic damage caused by unilateral coercive measures.

A significant proportion contribute and have contributed to the economy of that country. They are employed, have homes, have raised families and have planned their respective lives in the United States.

The territory where it is proposed to confine them does not belong to the United States. It is a portion of Cuba’s territory in the eastern province of Guantánamo, which remains militarily occupied illegally and against the will of the Cuban nation. This military installation is internationally identified, among other reasons, for housing a torture and indefinite detention centre, outside the jurisdiction of US courts, where people who have never been tried or convicted of any crime have been held for up to 20 years.

Its irresponsible use would generate a scenario of risk and insecurity in this illegal enclave and its surroundings; it would threaten peace and lend itself to errors, accidents and misinterpretations that could alter stability and provoke serious consequences.