The Cuban Association of the United Nations (ACNU) will hold the 21st Cuban Civil Society Forum against the Blockade on October 24th, a policy that violates fundamental human rights and currently hinders the country’s development.
Under the theme “The devastating impact of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba on organizations and other actors of Cuban civil society,” the meeting seeks to delve deeper into the human, social, and economic consequences that the US blockade has had on the daily lives of Cubans.
This forum is part of a series of activities that Cuban civil society develops annually around the UN General Assembly vote on the resolution against the blockade, and aims to consolidate a space for reflection, denunciation, and mobilization.
According to official data, from March 1, 2024, to February 28, 2025, the economic blockade caused material damages to Cuba estimated at $7.556 billion.
The Caribbean nation’s historic losses over more than six decades of the blockade are estimated at $170.677 billion at current prices and at $2.103 trillion at the value of gold.
Presenting a new report in September on the effects of the blockade, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez stated that the psychological impact of the US administration’s hostile policy on Cuban families is impossible to quantify.
“More than 80 percent of Cubans were born after the start of the blockade; the consequences of this policy are dramatically evident in the hardships our population faces,” he emphasized. “This reality is undeniable, it is tangible,” he remarked.
IMAGE CREDIT: Cuba to Denounce Damage from Blockade at 21st Civil Society Forum IMAGE: PRENSA LATINA
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
