Havana, Cuba.- These activities will be held on Monday, September 17, between 10:00 and noon, local time in Cuba, under the title 'The world against the blockade'.
The initiative to invite Internet users to reject a siege condemned in the five continents is part of the event "Tenemos Memoria (We have Memory): Solidarity vs. Blockade and Terrorism", taking place from September 4 to October 6.
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This event also takes place in the context of preparations for a new vote, on October 31, at the UN General Assembly on a draft resolution aimed at demanding the lifting of unilateral and extraterritorial measures applied by Washington to suffocate the Caribbean nation.
Since 1992, the international community has strongly supported similar texts at the General Assembly, the main UN deliberative forum, claiming that in the last three years, 191 of 193 member states of the multilateral organization have supported it.
Some few days ago, the Cuban government published its annual report on the impact of the U.S. blockade on many sectors of society and its extraterritorial scope, a siege to which damages are valued at $933.6 billion USD, taking into account the depreciation of the dollar against the value of gold on the international market.
Official sources denounced here the U.S. pressures to try to minimize votes in favor of the draft resolution similar to that adopted in the last 26 years by the Assembly plenary session.
The administration of President Donald Trump, since he took office in January 2017, has worsened the application of a blockade that Washington has never left aside, not even in 2015 and 2016, when his predecessor, Barack Obama, admitted the failure of that policy and promoted a bilateral approach in search for the normalization of relations with Cuba.
Another feature of the new U.S. government is the escalation in its aggressive diplomacy, which includes threats within the UN to those who do not join their positions of imposition, unilateralism and hegemony, scenario present in issues such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
U.S. BLOCKADE AFFECTS CUBAN CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL EDUCATION NEEDS
The U.S. blockade against Cuba affects rehabilitation programs for students with hearing and vision impaired, said here today Dr. Dagmaris Bosch, Ph.D. in Pedagogical Sciences.
The main challenge of this teaching is to rehabilitate children with special education needs so they can be incorporated into society, but that is not possible without technology, which is purchased abroad and whose price is increased by buying it in a third country, explained the specialist.
Bosch told Prensa Latina that, as director of the special school June 14, located in this city in the far east of the country, she has witnessed the consequences for these children of the policy imposed by Washington against the island.
High-grade glasses and lenses for myopia patients are missing, as well as the equipment for rehabilitating squint and amblyopic children; it is difficult to purchase machines and Braille sheets for blind and visually impaired children, she explained.
We need those equipment that contribute to the correction and compensation of their sensory affectations and most of the times we cannot count on them.
Some are old and have been conserved by our care, all this limits our work and the children learning, said Bosch.
The specialist explained that thanks to the Cuban State and independently of the economic and commercial financial blockade, some students of the center have received the cochlear implant, which has a cost of 50,000 dollars each.
That is why the labor of love done by teachers, health specialists and service personnel of our school is so important, because those are the weapons we have used to face the blockade for more than 50 years, she stressed.
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