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Imperative to end US blockade against Cuba

By Susellys Perez Mesa-Cuban Ambassador to Zimbabwe

The Herald, Zimbabwe

We have probably all heard about the blockade that the US has maintained against Cuba for over 60 years.

Perhaps you are also aware of the undeniable humanitarian consequences for the people of this beautiful Caribbean island, which this superpower’s policy has officially imposed on them since the triumph of the Revolution in 1959.

Harare, September 28, 2026 – The law of the jungle cannot be humanity's future, stated Mafa Kwanisai, Coordinator of the Fidel Castro Chair in Zimbabwe, while commenting on the speech delivered by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez at the 81st session of the UN General Assembly.

Mr. President of the General Assembly,

Madam Deputy Secretary-General,

In approximately three hours, it will be exactly 66 years since the Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, in a memorable speech at this very podium, declared: “Let the philosophy of plunder disappear, and the philosophy of war will have disappeared! Let colonies disappear, let the exploitation of countries by monopolies disappear, and then humanity will have reached a true stage of progress!”

Mr. President,

With the 1986 Declaration on the Right to Development, a hope was born.

Forty years later, that promise remains unfulfilled. The current international economic order, unjust by design, perpetuates dependence and exploitation of developing countries through a predatory financial architecture and the proliferation of unilateral coercive measures.