US blockade of Cuba began more than 60 years ago
Havana, February 3, 2022.- The United States blockade against Cuba was made official by President John F. Kennedy on February 3, 1962, but it is a policy that began much earlier, Ambassador Abelardo Moreno said Thursday.
Cuban diplomats hold an exchange with authorities of the Greek University of the Mediterranean in Crete.
Crete, January 31. The Cuban ambassador to Greece Zelmys Maria Dominguez Cortina and the counselor José Oriol Marrero Martínez held a fruitful exchange with the Rector of the Greek University of the Mediterranean, Mr. Nikos Katcharakis, and with Vice Chancellors and officials from the Department of International Relations of that prestigious academic institution.
President of Cuban Parliament receives visiting MEPs
Havana, February 1, 2022.- The president of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP), Esteban Lazo, today received a delegation of European Parliament members and of the group La Izquierda, who have been visiting the Caribbean island since yesterday.
The meeting took place at the National Capitol (headquarters of the legislative body), which according to the German MEP Martin Schirdewan, heading the group, will allow deepening the political dialogue and strengthen the bilateral relationship of the legislative entities.
Schirdewan described as positive the opportunity to observe during these days the popular consultation on the Family Code, “a process that denies the Western narrative that in Cuba the voice of the people is not heard.”
60 years since the proclamation that formalized the criminal economic blockade by the United States against Cuba
Declaration by the revolutionary government
The revolutionary government condemns the continuance for over 60 years of the economic, commercial and financial sanctions formally imposed by the United States on 3rd February 1962. On that date, the then president, John F. Kennedy, issued Proclamation 3447, “Embargo on All Trade with Cuba” under Section 620(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. He thereby conferred official status on the unilateral economic hostilities already in effect against Cuba since our country’s revolutionary victory.
Since that time, Washington’s policy of siege and economic suppression has become the core of a strategy designed to curtail the legitimate right of the Cuban people to defend their sovereignty and realize a program of development free of imperialist domination.
Cuban university students exchange on the 60 years of the blockade against Cuba
Havana, February 3, 2022.- Officials from the Cuban Foreign Ministry held a discussion this Thursday morning with students from the University of Havana on the 60th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 3447 that formalized the blockade of the USA against Cuba.