Cuba’s ambassador to France, Otto Vaillant, denounced the blockade imposed by the United States on his country today and highlighted the opportunity the world will have in a few days to condemn this policy once again.
In a column in the French newspaper L’Humanité, the diplomat recalled that on October 28 and 29, the United Nations General Assembly will consider the resolution “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba,” a text similar to the one that has received overwhelming support from the international community year after year since 1992.
Although it has been defended by the United States as a tool of political pressure, in practice, the blockade in place for more than six decades has proven to harm the population, limit national development, and provoke almost unanimous condemnation in international forums, he added.
Vaillant noted that over the years, Washington has strengthened its blockade and its extraterritorial reach through laws such as the Torricelli Act (1992) and the Helms-Burton Act (1996), in a hostile response to the independent and sovereign path the island embarked on with the January 1, 1959, Revolution.
Currently, Cuba faces severe obstacles in acquiring capital goods, medical supplies, technology, fuel, and agricultural products, which directly impacts vital sectors such as health, food, energy, and technological development, he emphasized.
According to the Cuban ambassador, the blockade, implemented and intensified by successive US administrations, also severely restricts the financial sector, with many banking institutions refusing to operate with the Caribbean country for fear of sanctions.
Added to all this are the disinformation and manipulation campaigns on digital platforms aimed at undermining internal stability and discrediting the Cuban government, he wrote in L’Humanité.
While highlighting the importance of the resolution Cuba is presenting at the UN General Assembly and the categorical universal rejection of the blockade, he denounced the White House’s ignoring the demands of five continents for an end to a siege considered illegal and inhumane.
Voices are growing for the lifting of the blockade, and also for the island’s exclusion from the unilateral US list of state sponsors of terrorism, he shared with French readers in the article.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
