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Migrants cross the Rio Bravo River to enter the United States, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on October 3, 2023. (Reuters photo)

Havana says the United States is responsible for the exodus of Cuban migrants by stoking an economic crisis in the Latin American country.

The Cuban foreign ministry said on Wednesday, "The economic blockade, reinforced in recent years, causes extraordinary limitations to the Cuban economy and the population’s standard of living, which stimulates the migration."

The ministry said the irregular migratory flow of Cuban citizens through the Central American corridor bound for the United States has "experienced noticeable growth" during the recent weeks and months.

"During the last months and weeks, the irregular migratory flow of Cuban citizens through the Central American corridor bound for the United States has experienced noticeable growth," the statement said.

Data shows a record-breaking number of Cubans reached the US border last year.

Cuba’s economy is suffering an unprecedented crisis, with shortages of basic goods including food, fuel and medicine due to US sanctions.

Central American immigrants fleeing ‘the hell’ US created: Analyst

Central American immigrants are fleeing "the hell" that the United States created for them in their countries, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.

Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, said in an interview with Press TV that immigrants who come to the US "are being deprived, not just of basic human rights and their dignity, but the rule of law and our historical responsibility."

"Regardless of the right of them to be here, separating children from their parents, caging people, denying them the basic necessities of life, especially regarding hygiene, and blaming them for these issues is the hallmark of a depraved human being," he stated, commenting on a statement by former President Donald Trump who told undocumented immigrants that they should not choose traveling to America if they are unhappy with the conditions that await them at detention centers.

"The other side of this is the historical context. Why are these immigrants here? What role did the US play in creating the hell from where they’re escaping? Unknown, or willingly unknown to most Americans, many of the drug cartels these migrants are escaping were the military officers and government officials who needed a new career path after the dirty wars of Central America ended, which was funded by the US and the torturers, murderers, and extortionists were trained by the School of the Americas in Georgia," Hoenig noted.