哈瓦那消息：古巴总统米格尔·迪亚斯-卡内尔于周五指责美国言行不一——一方面鼓吹在古巴发展私营企业，另一方面却对古巴的私营企业施加新的限制措施。
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel accuses the United States of hypocrisy for promoting private enterprise in Cuba while imposing new restrictions on Cuban businesses.
迪亚斯-卡内尔与总理曼努埃尔·马雷罗共同主持了一期播客节目，讨论了6月份议会批准的经济改革方案的实施情况。该方案赋予了私营企业前所未有的发展空间：私营企业可雇佣超过100名员工，可参与金融与外汇市场，可绕过国家中介直接从事进出口贸易、直接招聘员工，还能获得更多闲置土地资源。
ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ HAVANA — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Friday accused the United States of hypocrisy for promoting private enterprise on the island while imposing new restrictions against privately-owned Cuban businesses.
尽管迪亚斯-卡内尔与马雷罗重申古巴政府无意推行资本主义制度，但这套改革措施实际上正推动古巴朝着美国数十年来一直要求的经济开放方向迈进。然而与此同时，美国仍维持着一系列制裁措施，古巴方面称这些制裁构成了“能源封锁”。
Díaz-Canel hosted a podcast with Prime Minister Manuel Marrero to discuss the implementation of an economic reform package approved by parliament in June that gives private enterprise unprecedented latitude The reforms include allowing private businesses to employ more than 100 workers, participate in financial and currency markets, import and export goods without state intermediaries, hire workers directly and gain access to more idle land.
“我们不会停下脚步，”迪亚斯-卡内尔说道，他驳斥了美国总统唐纳德·特朗普及美国国务卿马尔科·鲁比奥关于古巴是“失败国家”的说法。他还对美国最新实施的制裁措施表示反对——本周美国撤销了前总统乔·拜登此前给予古巴小型私营企业主在美国银行开设账户的许可。
Although Díaz-Canel and Marrero reiterated that the Cuban government does not intend to embrace capitalism, the package moves Cuba toward the kind of economic opening the United States has demanded for decades— even as Washington maintains sanctions that Havana describes as an energy blockade“We are not going to stop,” Díaz-Canel said, rejecting assertions by U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Cuba is a “failed state.”At the same time, he rejected the latest U.S. sanctions, which this week revoked the permission previously granted by former U.S. President Joe Biden for small Cuban private entrepreneurs to open accounts in U.S. banks.
目前尚无确切数据说明有多少古巴企业家拥有此类账户，但岛上的独立分析人士认为这一举措会阻碍私营企业的发展。
No figures are available on how many Cuban entrepreneurs hold such accounts, but independent analysts on the island described the move as a setback for the development of private enterprise.
“如今他们连私营经济领域也要打压，这愈发清楚地表明美国根本无意造福我们的人民——这一切都是谎言、都是骗局，”迪亚斯-卡内尔补充道。
“Now they are attacking that sector as well, making it increasingly clear that there is no interest or willingness to benefit our people — that it is all a lie, all a fallacy,” Díaz-Canel added.
美国的制裁进一步加剧了这个岛国已持续五年的经济危机。古巴民众饱受困扰：停电情况频繁发生，每次持续逾30小时；交通陷入混乱，航班大量取消，工业生产也出现大幅下滑。
U.S. sanctions have deepened the economic crisis gripping the island for five years. Cubans have endured blackouts lasting more than 30 hours transportation disruptions, flight cancellations and a sharp decline in production.