HAVANA - Cuba on Tuesday rejected remarks by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that there is no oil blockade against the island.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez accused Rubio of lying, saying the statement contradicted an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump on Jan 29 that threatens tariffs on countries trading oil with Cuba.

"In four months, only one fuel ship has arrived in Cuba. All our suppliers are intimidated and threatened in violation of free trade rules and freedom of navigation," Rodriguez said.

He added that Rubio "knows very well the damage caused to the Cuban people" by what he called the oil siege.

Cuba also criticized another executive order signed Friday by Trump, which imposes secondary sanctions on the energy sector, including measures against foreign banks linked to the Cuban government and migration restrictions.

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The order allows Washington to block people or entities operating in key Cuban sectors, including energy, mining, defense and security, or those providing material, financial or technological support to the Cuban government or sanctioned individuals.

The Cuban government has called the measures illegal.

The United States has maintained sanctions against Cuba for over 60 years, with a comprehensive trade embargo officially instituted in February 1962. The sanctions have since remained in place, and at times tightened or slightly eased. 

Also on Tuesday, Rodriguez said it is "cynical and hypocritical" for the United States to threaten using military forces to "liberate" the country after more than six decades of economic, commercial and financial embargo.

"The US government insists in hinting at a military action against Cuba because 'the country is devastated... and it would be an honor to liberate it,'" Rodriguez wrote on X.

"The cynical and hypocritical thing about it is that the US has spent decades trying to devastate the country with an economic war," he said, adding that the current US administration has intensified such blockade in recent months through "genocidal" executive orders.

"Both the economic blockade and energy siege as well as the new extraterritorial coercive measures; the threat of a military attack and the aggression itself are international crimes," he said.

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Speaking at a recent event in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said the United States would take control of Cuba "almost immediately" after "finishing a job," referring to the conflict with Iran in the Middle East.

He also threatened to position the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln about "100 yards" off Cuba's coast after its return from that region.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Saturday urged the international community and the US people to reject what he described as a criminal act serving the interests of "a small but wealthy and influential group" seeking revenge and domination.