By Roberto Morejón
Cuba's losses due to the U.S. blockade, updated to the point of outlining that they imply doing without more than 12 million dollars a day, are related to the inadequacies of the economy and the consequent material shortages.
Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez took the accounts to the current days, by specifying that the boycott, intensified by Donald Trump and supported by Joseph Biden, causes havoc in the amount of 365 million dollars a month.
In more than 60 years of siege, the losses amount to 150 billion dollars, a burden difficult to assimilate by a poor country which, like the rest of the world, has just suffered the ravages of a pandemic, and still has cases, although without losing control.
In general, the hegemonic press and users of social networks highlight the lines in Cuban commercial establishments, the crowds on the streets waiting for transportation and the insufficient agricultural production.
The allusions omit to mention the footprint of the blockade, Cuba's scarce access to international credits, the persecution of banks that undertake transactions with Havana and the pressures on potential foreign investors.
All as part of a blockade that, according to extremists, does NOT exist, in spite of the evidence provided by the Caribbean nation, of which the international community has taken note.
For the twenty-ninth year, the UN General Assembly approved in 2021 a resolution to urge the United States to put an end to the restrictions against Cuba.
Cuba has repeatedly denounced that one of the purposes of the siege is to provoke hunger, desperation, random dissent against the government and economic emigration.
As a result of such maneuvers, campaigns such as the one labeled "SOSCuba" have arisen, with a view to internationally branding the image of a country adrift, urgently in need, they affirmed, of humanitarian aid, a preamble to an intervention.
Thus, the blockade serves as a tool for many purposes, all aimed at suffocating the Cubans, as part of an economic war which, notwithstanding the fact that it has been denounced at the UN, has no signs of ending, judging by the attitude of the administrations in Washington, with their backs turned to the pronouncements.