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哈瓦那，4月6日（路透社）——美国众议院两名民主党议员上周访问了古巴，这是自美国总统唐纳德·特朗普实施事实上的石油封锁，试图迫使古巴共产党政府垮台以来，今年首个访古的国会代表团。
国会众议员、民主党进步派核心成员普拉米拉·贾亚帕尔，以及长期关注古巴事务的民主党众议员乔纳森·杰克逊表示，他们此行旨在“亲眼目睹当地因特朗普燃料禁运而遭受的苦难”，他们将该禁运称为“非法的能源供应封锁”。
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此次议员访古正值美古两国数十年紧张关系迎来前所未有的紧张局势之际。特朗普政府切断了对古巴的汇款渠道，威胁向向古巴提供石油的国家征收关税，并将古巴列入支持恐怖主义国家名单。
“就在距离我们海岸仅90英里的地方，现在是地球上受制裁最严重的地区，”杰克逊在哈瓦那海滨附近一家私营招待所对一小群记者表示，“我们应该降低言辞攻击性。民众正在受苦，而他们的苦难毫无正当理由。”
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议员们表示，为期五天的访问于周日结束，期间他们与古巴国家主席米格尔·迪亚斯-卡内尔、古巴国会议员以及古巴外交部高级官员举行了会晤。
两国均已确认双方已开始对话，但相关讨论的细节尚未对外公开。
“已经有对话了——初步的对话，”贾亚帕尔在与古巴高级官员会晤后表示，“我认为这还没有达到我们此前被告知的谈判阶段。但我认为双方都有意愿确保开展真正的谈判……探讨需要采取哪些措施才能改变当前局势。”
议员们表示，他们走访了哈瓦那多家医院的肿瘤科和产科病房后深感痛心，这些科室数十年来一直状况不佳，如今因特朗普的燃油封锁而遭受了尤为严重的打击。
强硬言论
特朗普近期称，他期待以“某种形式”“拿下古巴”，并表示对这个邻国“我可以为所欲为”。
尽管发出此类威胁，特朗普并未阻止一艘俄罗斯油轮上周向古巴运送了70万桶该国急需的原油。
“特朗普总统心存善意，允许俄罗斯油轮入境，无论是什么改变了他的想法，我们都对此心存感激，”杰克逊说道。
民主党议员们还称赞了古巴近期释放的善意姿态。
古巴上月邀请流亡者赴岛投资商业项目，邀请美国联邦调查局调查一起造成五人死亡的古巴北海岸非法海上入侵事件，而就在最近，古巴宣布将赦免至多2000名囚犯。
“诸多迹象表明，现在正是我们两国开展真正谈判、摒弃数十年来失败的冷战遗留美国政策的时机，这些政策不再符合美国人民和古巴人民的利益，”贾亚帕尔说道。
她表示，民主党将继续推动相关法案，确保美国不会对古巴开战，并推动解除她所称毫无效果的制裁。
杰克逊表示，两人都认为，任何拒不妥协的做法只会引发更大的问题。
“我们要么帮助（古巴）人民留在国内，过上健康正常的生活，要么就会有大规模移民潮涌向美国，”杰克逊说，“人们不会只是待在原地，受苦至死。”
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US Democratic lawmakers visit Cuba, call on Trump to “bring the rhetoric down”
2026-04-06 12:03:51 UTC / Reuters
By Dave Sherwood
April 6, 2026 12:03 PM UTC Updated 3 hours ago
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U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) speaks to Boeing workers during a rally held by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 751 at a union hall during an ongoing strike in Seattle, Washington, U.S. October 15, 2024. REUTERS/David Ryder
HAVANA, April 6 (Reuters) – Two Democrats from the U.S. House of Representatives visited Cuba last week, the first such delegation to go to the island this year since U.S. president Donald Trump imposed a de facto oil blockade in a bid to bring Cuba’s communist-run government to its knees.
Congressional representatives Pramila Jayapal, a leading member of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and Jonathan Jackson, a Democrat with a long interest in Cuba, said they had come to “see the suffering that is happening on the ground” as a result of Trump’s fuel embargo, which they called “an illegal blockade of energy supplies.”
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The lawmakers’ visit comes at a time of unprecedented tension in the decades-long frosty relationship between the U.S. and Cuba. The Trump administration has closed the tap on remittances to Cuba, threatened to slap tariffs on countries that provide oil to the island and placed it on a list of nations that sponsor terrorism.
“This is the most sanctioned part of Planet Earth right now, just 90 miles off our shores,” Jackson told a small group of reporters at a privately-owned hostel near Havana’s waterfront. “Let´s bring the rhetoric down. People are suffering. And they are suffering for no good reason.”
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The lawmakers said their five day trip, which ended on Sunday, included meetings with President Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuban lawmakers and top officials at Cuba’s foreign ministry.
Both nations have acknowledged they have begun talking, though few details of those discussions have been made public.
“There has been dialogue – the beginnings of dialogue,” Jayapal said following meetings with top Cuban officials. “I don’t think it’s reached the state of negotiation that we were told. But I think there is a desire to ensure that there is a real negotiation…about what needs to happen in order for the situation to change.”
The lawmakers said they were saddened after visiting an oncology unit and a maternity ward in Havana hospitals that have been deteriorating for decades but have been particularly hard hit by Trump’s fuel blockade.
TOUGH TALK
Trump recently said he expected to have the “honor” of “taking Cuba in some form” and that “I can do anything I want” with the neighboring country.
Despite such threats, Trump did not take action to stop a Russian tanker that last week delivered 700,000 barrels of desperately needed crude oil to Cuba.
“President Trump saw in his heart to let the Russian ship come in, whatever changed his heart we are grateful for,” Jackson said.
The Democratic lawmakers also praised Cuba for recent gestures of apparent goodwill.
Cuba last month invited exiles to invest in businesses on the island, invited the FBI to investigate an illegal incursion by sea that left five dead off Cuba’s north coast and most recently, said it would pardon upwards of 2,000 prisoners.
“There are a number of things that indicate that the moment is here for us to have a real negotiation between our two countries and to reverse failed U.S. policy of decades, a Cold War era remnant, that no longer serves the American people or the Cuban people,” Jayapal said.
She said Democrats would continue to push for bills that ensure the U.S. does not go to war with Cuba, and would push to lift sanctions she said were ineffective.
Jackson said the duo believed anything short of compromise would lead only to bigger problems.
“We can either help (the Cuban) people stay at home and live a healthy normal life, or there´s going to be a huge migration coming towards the United States,” Jackson said. “People will not simply stay here, suffer and die.”
Reporting by Dave Sherwood in Havana; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan