The accumulated damages during these six decades of application of the genocidal blockade policy imposed by the US on Cuba amount to 154,217.3 million dollars.
Perhaps these figures represent nothing to many, however, for the Cuban people they translate into the slowing down of the economic and social development processes of Cuban families.
Examples abound. Some of the most recent ones denote the most cruel aspect of this policy. The impediment to the acquisition of oxygen and pulmonary ventilators in third countries during the pandemic demonstrated that it constitutes an inhumane act in its most serious expression.
The health sector is one of the hardest hit by this system of unilateral coercive measures. Although Cuba is capable of producing more than 60% of its basic list of medicines, these levels have not been guaranteed for months due to the impact of the blockade and the Cuban people have faced this shortage.
Provoking the economic collapse of the Caribbean nation is undoubtedly one of the purposes pursued by the United States. Between January 2021 and February 2022, 642 direct actions were registered against foreign banks that refused to operate with Cuba.
Although the measures announced on May 16 by the Biden administration are a step in the right direction, but of a very limited nature, they do not address the most harmful aspects of the blockade, nor do they reverse the most aggressive measures imposed against Cuba by the Trump administration.
In the context of the global crisis in the health, energy, food and environmental sectors, Cuba has had to face, additionally, the unprecedented tightening of the U.S. blockade. In the first months of the Biden administration, the damages caused to the island represent more than 15 million dollars a day.
Undoubtedly, Cuba has the right to live without a blockade, it has the right to live in peace.
Cuban Embassy in Washington D.C