Cuba has the right to live without a blockade, it has the right to live in peace.
The accumulated damages during these six decades of application of the genocidal blockade policy imposed by the US on Cuba amount to 154,217.3 million dollars.
Perhaps these figures represent nothing to many, however, for the Cuban people they translate into the slowing down of the economic and social development processes of Cuban families.
The United States, opportunism and cruelty against Cuba
Excluding Cuba from the review process of unilateral coercive measures applied during the Covid-19 pandemic was an opportunistic decision and cold cruelty, warned Johana Tablada, deputy director general for the United States at the Foreign Ministry.
In a publication in her social networks, Tablada recalled that as a result of the devastating effect of those restrictive measures of the United States on public health and the population of those unilaterally "sanctioned" countries that were also affected by Covid-19, the calls to Washington multiplied.
Press Release
Havana, October 18, 2022.- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba appreciates the two million dollar assistance offered by the US State Department to help Cubans who are suffering the damages caused by hurricane Ian. Such assistance would be channeled through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, an agency Cuba is a party to and with which it has had long and smooth relations.
This contribution will add up to the vast recovery and reconstruction efforts that are being carried out by the Cuban national authorities and the people.
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington D.C. learns about the impact of the Blockade on Cuba
The impact on the national economy and on the daily life of the population of the economic sanctions structured by the blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba, was exposed in the Sunday sermon of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, during an exchange between officials of the Cuban Embassy in Washington D.C. and members of the congregation.
The second head of the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C. Alejandro Garcia and Vice Consul Laura Rivas, participants in the meeting, also discussed the historical background of relations between Cuba and the United States.
Rebeldes impassable! during second baseball game
With an effective work of the pitchers and an offensive contribution distributed among the entire roster, the "Rebels" team of the Cuban embassy in Washington D.C., once again defeated the "Mambises", this time with a score of 15-2, in a game held at the Norwood Park sports center in Maryland.
The Rebel team was sustained by the work of its starting pitcher, who was impassable during the entire game, allowing two solitary dirty runs in the seventh inning. The Rebel relievers effectively pitched the eighth and ninth innings, leaving the Mambises with their machetes sheathed.