On or Off Cuba Ping.
Posted on 09/19/2007 5:39:25 PM PDT by freedom44
Havana, Sept 19 (acn) "Washington's economic, trade and financial blockade has cost more than 89 billion dollars to Cuba", informed Tuesday in Havana Cuba's Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque.
In a press conference at the headquarters of the Cuban Foreign Ministry (MINREX) in Havana, Perez Roque announced the report by Cuba on Resolution 61/11 of the United Nations General Assembly, to be presented in Geneva on October 30 under the title "Necessity to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba."
Perez Roque declared that this economic war, under discreet figures, has been recurrent in each subsequent American administration, and the strengthening of that policy only shows its increasingly extraterritorial nature.
The UN Secretary General has forwarded the document to a great number of countries and international bodies, while 23 agencies and international programs and 115 out of the 192 UN member countries have exposed the impact on their own economy and given their opinion on the consequences of the blockade against the island, Perez Roque noted.
"This answer", he said, "is an unmistakable sign of the damage caused by this policy on Cuba and some 30 other nations of the world that also suffer economic restrictions, sanctions, and threats against their citizens and enterprises."
The Minister mentioned some aspects included in the report, such as the Bush Plan for re-colonizing Cuba, the repercussions on the various sectors of Cuba's economy and society, and section 211 of America's Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1999 and new hostilities regarding brand names.
Other officials of the communications, education, culture, healthcare, and transportation fields on the island gave examples of the impact of the blockade, such as the denial of visas to Cuban scientists, artists and movie makers, and the restrictions to perform successful kidney transplants and to purchase pacemakers and valves for children with heart problems.
"Cuba will continue to speak up against the maneuvers of the US government", stressed Perez Roque, and added that the next voting session against the blockade at the United Nations will for sure favor the island once again.
"The White House must lift the blockade due to the economic implications it represents to both countries, and because there are enough reasons to give up on a harsh, hostile policy aiming at strangling and overcoming Cubans by starvation", concluded the Foreign Minister.
Since 1992, Cuba has presented this document before the United Nations General Assembly. In the 2006 voting session, 183 countries supported the island, while only four voted against and one country abstained.
And the problem is............??????? This tinhorn commie dictatorship is going to fall. Hopefully, the same pressure can be brought to bear on Hugo Chavez.
Mmmm, Honeybabe, if one nation not trading with you can do that then your economy needs some revamping.
Iperialist = Imperialist
What “blockade” are these people talking about?
Good. Castro cost us a lot more.
It’s not a blockade, it’s an embargo.
They are claiming that loss of trade with the U.S. costs them $89 Billion? Try ending hostility towards the U.S.
On or Off Cuba Ping.
The irony is that Cuba would be much better off today if we had never freed them from Spain—they’d be enjoying EU living standards instead of being a dirt-poor Communist dictatorship. And without the Spanish-American War, the US would never have had Theodore Roosevelt or FDR as Presidents.
Is Charlie Sheen going to try and sell this?
A fellow member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
What crap Cuba can trade with Canada, Mexico and most of the rest of the world, but it has no money so they can’t pay for what they want. It’s not our fault. The need to find a Greenspan to help them out.
Their crazy dictator has cost them that and a lot more.
I stand corrected.
How stringently is this enforced?
Sounds perfect to me.
Chavez faced unrest when he raised gasoline prices on Venezuelans (from 25 cents a gallon to whatever); he was forced into measures like that in part because of the oil revenue increase pouring into the country, but also in part because of his military spending and foreign aid, some of which goes to Cuba (if memory serves).
Good thing they have 100 billion worth of old Chevy’s they can auction off on the Speed Channel.
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