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Nearly 600 parliamentarians from 73 countries around the world wrote a joint letter, coordinated and published by Progressive International (PI), in which they condemn the designation of Cuba by the United States as a “state sponsor of terrorism” as “cynical, cruel and a clear violation of international law”. In the letter, published today, Friday, September 20, the legislators call on their respective governments to “take immediate steps to advocate for the removal [of the designation].”

U.S. policy towards Cuba has had among its pillars, for more than six decades, the implementation of unilateral coercive economic measures. Although the fundamentals of this approach have varied somewhat over time, according to experts, the constant objective of the blockade policy has been to use the economic power of the US to undermine the Cuban socio-economic and political system and thus bring about a change of regime on the island.