Periodico 26

The impact of the United States' blockade on Cuba grows annually and affects the country's economic structure, causing damages that will last even after those barriers are lifted, an ECLAC official said today.

Cuba's diplomatic mission at UN stressed how the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States, which is now intensifying its actions, is a brake on achieving sustainable development.

US President Donald Trump has renewed the Trade with the Enemy Act for one more year, a statute dating back to 1917 that sets the basis of the economic blockade imposed on Cuba.

The representative of the Pan American Health Organization /World Health Organization (WHO / PAHO) in Havana, Cristian Morales, says the US economic blockade on Cuba is unfair.

The world has condemned and calls for an end to the United States blockade of Cuba. It is an elementary right of the island to be able to decide its future without foreign interference

Even though it is an international reference due to its notorious results, higher education in Cuba has been affected by limitations to develop all its potentialities, due to the blockade imposed by the United States.

Nephrology has not escaped the negative effects of the economic and financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States, the president of the Cuban Scientific Society of Nephrology, Jorge Pérez, denounced today.

The damage caused by the United States'' blockade on Cuba, which has been tightened recently, is a recurrent issue all year around at high-level meetings and events at the United Nations' headquarters in New York.

The economic and financial blockade of the United States against Cuba maintained for more than 50 years strongly affects the development of tourism on the island, according to a specialized report.

For more than two decades, the international community has supported Cuba's demand the US puts an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade on the island.