In presence before the national and foreign press, the Foreign Minister detailed that such losses amount to one trillion 326 billion 432 million dollars when the depreciation of the dollar against the value of gold in the international market is taken into account.

That is more than 12 million dollars a day and more than 365 million dollars a month to the detriment of a small and underdeveloped economy like Cuba's, he stressed.

Rodríguez said that this has an impact on families and is one of the causes of emigration from the island, fundamentally economic.

At the same time, he criticized, the United States applies a selective and discriminatory migratory policy towards Cubans.

Washington blocks travel, cuts off channels for regular and orderly emigration and fails to comply with agreements by which it committed itself to grant no less than 20,000 immigrant visas to citizens of the island, he remarked.