During a panel discussion broadcast on local television to publicize the program commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Crime of Barbados, several panelists emphasized that the blockade and terrorism are parts of the same policy against the Cuban Revolution and refused to stay in time, when many world leaders say the era of the Cold War is gone. The Cuban ambassador, Francisco Fernandez, questioned the validity of that assertion because on one hand the Cuban people still waiting for full justice against criminals and fighting is done to get rid of the economic, commercial and financial harassment imposed against his country, and because while alluding to the fall of the Berlin wall, there are now more walls than ever in different regions of the planet, our hemisphere included.
Ambassador Robert Morris, representative government of Barbados, reiterated his country's rejection of the obsolete policy of isolation and blockade, as have their top leaders in all regional and international forums. Meanwhile, lawyer and social activist Robert Clarke denounced the inconsistency of the anti-imperialist strategy, which can not be sustained by their immoral, subversive and cruel character. Meanwhile, the doctoral candidate and graduated in Cuba, Margaret Harris, praised the altruism of the Cuban people, who despite many economic and material difficulties, has not failed to exercise solidarity with the third world countries, particularly Barbados and the Caribbean region, maintaining cooperation in many areas such as health, education, sports, culture and others.