Deputies from different benches and Brazilian solidarity organizations repudiated and demanded today in a hall of the Legislative Assembly of the state of Sao Paulo (Alesp), the end of the blockade against Cuba.
A solemn act against the economic, commercial and financial siege imposed by the United States against the island for more than six decades took place in that hall.
A central moment of the event was the screening of the documentary film The Drop of Water, on the theme of the siege, which caused Cuba total losses of 154 billion 217 million dollars in 60 years.
The film reflects, through the life story of little Natali Rodríguez Méndez, the difficulties generated by the existence of this hostile policy in the daily life of Cuban families and in obtaining resources for the medical care that the State provides free of charge.
During the ceremony, Ambassador Pedro Monzon, Consul General of Cuba in Sao Paulo, and Deputy Maurici, of the Workers' Party (PT) and president of the International Relations Commission of the Alesp, took the floor with energetic interventions in support of Cuba and in rejection of the blockade.
Legislator Paulo Fiorilo, leader of the PT bench, read a Note of Repudiation to the Suffering Imposed on the Cuban People, signed by many congressmen.
The communication will continue to be signed by members of the Legislative Assembly and will then be delivered to the Consulate General of Cuba in Sao Paulo to be sent to the island.
In the text, the signatories warn that the blockade intensified, especially during the administration of Donald Trump, who added 243 new measures and reincorporated Cuba to the spurious list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Such unjust inclusion, they refer, "further complicates Cuba's access to the international financial system, making it impossible to acquire medicines and other essential goods."
Contrary to what was expected, they recall, the administration of Democrat Joe Biden did not modify its policy towards the island and the sanctions have remained unchanged up to the present.
The note indicates that the current scenario in Cuba is aggravated by natural disasters such as Hurricane Ian, which devastated the island in 2022, and by the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
"The blockade and these additional circumstances created an extremely critical situation, with a lack of medicines, food, fuel and other essential goods," the subscribers state.
They call for international solidarity and to build initiatives to support Cuba, especially to maintain the growing pressure for the total suspension of the U.S. siege and the removal of the island from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.