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(L-R) Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Dagoberto Rodriguez and Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo

HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Dagoberto Rodriguez has urged Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo to provide solutions to the current serious problems faced by Spanish society instead of interfering in Cuba’s internal affairs.

In a statement published by Granma newspaper on Tuesday, Rodriguez referred to an interview with Garcia-Margallo that appeared in last Sunday’s edition of El Mundo newspaper, in which the Spanish official “used disrespectful and interfering expressions on human rights and the state of law in Cuba.”

“We express our strongest rejection of those statements, which are a new interference in Cuba’s internal affairs. It is not in Cuba where Franco’s admirers are. It is best that he looks around himself,” Rodriguez’s statement reads.

After noting that Cuba is no longer a colony, but a sovereign and independent country that does not accept questioning, “particularly, from those who try to teach lessons when they really live under a glass ceiling”, the Cuban deputy foreign minister added that the Spanish government “should more likely provide solutions to the serious problems faced by its society such as: the economic crisis; the continued increase in unemployment, which affects more than five million persons, mainly youths; the police retaliation against peaceful demonstrators; the deplorable situation in prison facilities, among other human rights violations.”

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