Havana, Cuba.- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Saturday that the U.S. government is hostile, threatening and using lies as a pretext to blame the island for Washington”s failures in Venezuela.

‘They try to impose an illegal extraterritorial law and fail to break support for Cuba. Nothing will stop our united march. We are Cuba,’ the head of state wrote on Twitter.

On May 2, the White House decided to activate Title III of the controversial Helms Burton Act (in force since 1996), which tightens the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by Washington on the largest of the Antilles for almost six decades.

This section opens the possibility for U.S. citizens to file lawsuits in the U.S. courts against individuals or companies that ‘traffic’ in property nationalized by the Cuban Government after 1959.

This Thursday, the U.S. cruise company Carnival was the first entity to be sued under the aforementioned law, after two lawsuits filed in the Miami federal courts.

Last Tuesday, President Donald Trump threatened to tighten the blockade of the Antillean nation as part of his government’s aggressive escalation against the island for its solidarity with Venezuela.