The main authorities of Inder, headed by its president Osvaldo Vento Montiller, denounced the cruel economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the U.S. government on Cuba, which is now in its 60th year of existence.

Havana, February 4 (RHC/JIT)-- The main authorities of INDER, headed by its president Osvaldo Vento Montiller, denounced the cruel economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the U.S. government on Cuba, which is now in its 60th year of existence.

"The cruelty of its countless traces provide sufficient reasons for #InderCuba to condemn the 60 years of #USBlockade against #Cuba, viciously increased in the midst of the #COVID19," Vento wrote on Thursday through the social network Twitter.

The vice president of the Cuban sports organization, Omar Venega, recalled through the same social network that on February 3, 1962 John F. Kennedy decreed Presidential Proclamation 3447, which imposed the blockade on trade between the United States and Cuba, "although since 1959 that country was already applying economic measures against the young Revolution."

The Inder, through its Twitter account, further expressed that "alien to any hint of legitimacy and moral justification, the #USBlockade against #Cuba has not respected the nobility of an activity such as sport. And it is not surprising, because neither has it done so with sectors such as health or education".

In the last five years the blockade has cost the Cuban sports system about 20 million dollars, appealing to conservative estimates.