As every year for the 31st time, Cuba will present before the United Nations General Assembly an update on the negative impact of the criminal, unjust and genocidal blockade, by virtue of resolution 77/7 of the United Nations General Assembly, entitled "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba", next November 1 and 2.
From March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2023, the blockade caused damages to Cuba, estimated in the order of 4 billion 867 dollars. This represents an impact of more than 405 million dollars a month, more than 13 million dollars a day, and more than 555 thousand dollars for each hour of the blockade. Cuba deserves to live better without the blockade.
An international tribunal against the blockade will also be held on November 16 and 17 in Brussels, Belgium, where lawyers, politicians, parliamentarians and representatives of civil society from all over the world will discuss this policy which attempts to afflict a people determined to defend its political system, its sovereignty, its territorial integrity and its independence.
Several organizations in solidarity with Cuba around the world are leading the "Let Cuba Live" Campaign. This is a historic action to collect more than one million signatures demanding that President Biden remove Cuba from the spurious List of State Sponsors of Terrorism, which intensifies coercive measures against my country, depriving it of access to international financial mechanisms. The petition can be signed online or in print at https://es.letcubalive.info/join-the-campaign. From our embassy, we call on Cyprus and the whole world, to join the international demand so that the Cuban people can live better without the blockade.