With regard to the Seminar on Title III of the Helms-Burton Law at the University of Havana, it is not idle to refer a clause of that legislation that leaves no room for doubt. Usually, the US government points out that the blockade is a bilateral issue with Cuba. Year after year in the UN General Assembly, they repeated that as one of its arguments to justify the economic war against our country. However, section 102 of the Helms Burton Act entitled "APPLICATION OF THE ECONOMIC EMBARGO TO CUBA" refers to:
Point (1) on Restrictions of other countries the following:
Congress hereby reaffirms section 1704(a) of the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992 (Torricelli) which states that the President must encourage foreign governments to limit trade and credit relations with Cuba in a manner consistent with the purposes of that law.
At point (2). Sanctions against other countries.-- Congress also urges the President to take immediate measures to apply the sanctions described in section 1704(b)(1) of that Act against countries that help Cuba.
But, it seems that the US legislator was not enough with the above, and in paragraph (b) of aforementioned section ordered:
Diplomatic Efforts.--The Secretary of State should ensure that United States diplomatic personnel abroad understand and, in their contacts with foreign officials, are communicating the reasons for the United States economic embargo against Cuba, and are urging foreign governments to cooperate more effectively with the embargo.
Their own law disproves them. The blockade is not a bilateral issue with the United States. It is a permanent economic war in which all American agencies and diplomats around the world must be involved by law: pressuring, obstructing contracts, torpedoing investment projects, blackmailing banks or threatening shipping entities and insurance agencies. All this against Cuba's efforts in its relations with companies and businessmen from third countries.
The blockade is a complete economic war, on a global scale, against the Cuban people and government.
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