Cuba's educational system suffers effects of the US blockade.
The damage caused by the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on the Cuban education sector was estimated at $75,551,799. In the National Education System, there are 1,315 institutions that require repair, calculating a total impact of 6,500,000 dollars.
US blockade affects development of Cuban sports movement.
The cruel blockade policy against Cuba has also represented an increase in the limitations and costs for the acquisition of sports equipment, fabrics, footwear, technical and pedagogical means, technological supports, among others, whose main market of origin is the United States.
Cuba reiterates its unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian and Arab cause.
The highest priority of the General Assembly must be to achieve an end of violence and the provision of urgent and sufficient humanitarian aid to address the catastrophic situation in Gaza, said Ambassador Gerardo Peñalver Portal, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, during the emergency special session on Palestine.
Cuban Health System, target of US blockade (II).
The large losses to the health sector in Cuba due to the US blockade, between March 2022 and February 2023, amount to 239,803,690 dollars, a figure that exceeds by almost 80 million the damages reported in the period prior to the pandemic. COVID-19.
Cuban Health, a target of US blockade (I).
One of the sectors severly hit by the blockade imposed by United States against Cuba is Health. Between March, 2022 and February, 2023, blockade losses to this sphere totaled USD 239,803,690. During the over 60 years in which the blockade has been imposed, the accumulated losses thus incurred in the health sector have reached USD 3,625,840,594.