The Institute of Social Communication recalled on its Facebook profile that 26 years ago, the Provincial People’s Court of Havana City found the United States government guilty of the economic damages caused to the Cuban people. The First Civil and Administrative Chamber of that Court ruled in favor of the lawsuit filed by social and mass organizations and ordered the defendant to compensate the Cuban people in the amount of 121 billion dollars.
Civil case number one of the year 2000 specified that the sentence was notified that same day, through established diplomatic channels, to the U.S. government.
In May 2000, the Havana Provincial People’s Court issued Judgment 47/2000, which recognized the genocidal nature of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by Washington and set the accumulated damages at 121 billion dollars.
A year earlier, in November 1999, the Second Civil and Administrative Chamber had issued Judgment 88/1999, which held the United States responsible for the deaths of 3,478 people and serious injuries to 2,099 citizens, with compensation of 181.1 billion dollars.
The lawsuits were brought by social organizations such as the Cuban Workers’ Federation, the Federation of Cuban Women, the Federation of University Students, the National Association of Small Farmers, and the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, among others.
The Ministry of Justice, the Supreme People’s Court, the National Assembly of People’s Power, and the Communist Party of Cuba supported the legal actions, which constitute domestic legal precedents against U.S. aggression.
Both rulings remain in effect and are remembered as an expression of Cuba’s sovereign will to establish legal reality regarding the effects of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by U.S. imperialism and its hostile actions against its people.
[ SOURCE: AGENCIA CUBANA DE NOTICIAS ]
