Since the 1st. From March 2022 until February 28 of this year, the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States against Cuba caused estimated damages in the order of 4,867,000,000 dollars, which represents an impact of more than 405 $1,000,000 per month, over $13,000,000 per day, and over $555,000 per hour of blocking.
These are data presented in the Island's report pursuant to resolution 77/7 of the United Nations General Assembly, entitled Necessity to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba, which is will present the next days 1st. and November 2.
The text, which can be consulted on the website of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, indicates that the blockade is the central element that has defined the policy of the United States towards Cuba for more than six decades and that the effects of this undeclared war against the economy, society, daily life and the dreams of progress of more than 11 million Cubans have not ceased for a single day.
«This period was marked by the continuous and deliberate application of the maximum pressure measures established during the Donald Trump Government, the validity of the laws that make up this system of unilateral coercive measures, and the inertia and immobility of the current Government of President Joseph Biden,” says the report.
The possibility of taking action in the US courts against lawsuits filed under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, the permanence of Cuba on the arbitrary List of State Sponsors of Terrorism prepared by the United States Department of State, the persecution of the country's financial and commercial transactions, the inability to process non-immigrant visas in Havana, the intimidation of companies that send fuel supplies to the Island, the attempts to thwart the recovery of the tourism sector after the COVID pandemic -19 and the discredit campaign against Cuban medical cooperation programs, define the most severe current features of the hostile policy of the United States towards Cuba, the document states.
The report indicates that along with the intensified effects of the blockade, Cuba has had to face the persistent consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic that affect all areas of the country's socioeconomic life, as well as the combined impacts of a multidimensional crisis. global level.
«The blockade causes extreme direct damage due to the integral mechanism of its measures, but at the same time it has the cruel and practical purpose of depriving the country of the financial income that is essential to acquire food, supplies, equipment, parts and pieces, technologies and software.
"In addition, there is the media crusade that from the communication and intelligence nodes of the United States is articulated against Cuba to build a distorted reality in the virtual scenario," he says.
At current prices, the accumulated damages over more than six decades of applying this policy amount to $159,084,300,000. Taking into account the behavior of the dollar against the value of gold in the international market, the blockade has caused quantifiable damages of more than 1,337,057,000,000 dollars.
The next few days 1st. and November 2, the United Nations General Assembly will consider and vote on the draft resolution Need to end the economic, financial and commercial blockade of the United States against Cuba. Once again, the international community will raise its voice and overwhelmingly reject this unjust, illegal and cruel policy.