The forty-seventh Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) today reiterated its call for the lifting of the unjust economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba.
At the close of the regional organization's meeting, the participants expressed their deep concern over the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Cuba as a result of the blockade unjustly imposed on Cuba for the past 62 years by the Government of the United States of America.
“In light of the gravity of the humanitarian situation, the Caricom Heads of Government agreed to provide material support to assist Cuba,” they stressed at the meeting held in Grenada.
Caricom also noted that it considers the continued inclusion of Cuba by the U.S. State Department on its list of state sponsors of terrorism to be wrong and offensive.
“The Conference reiterates its call for Cuba to be immediately removed from that list,” the Caribbean community emphasized.
The blockade is catalogued as a massive, flagrant and systematic violation of the human rights of all Cubans whose measures are aimed at affecting the most sensitive sectors of society and creating desperation among the people, in addition, it has remained the central axis of the United States policy towards the island.
To make matters worse, Cuba was re-designated as a state sponsor of terrorism on January 12, 2021, in the presidency of Donald Trump.
Such designation has effects that make life more difficult for the people of Cuba, both inside and outside the island, for example by creating additional obstacles to the delivery of humanitarian assistance, business, investment and trade involving Cuba and, by extension, Cuban citizens.