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Claims against the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States for more than 60 years are heard this Sunday in various parts of the geography of the northern country.
A caravan of the Puentes de Amor Movement, as is customary in the last Sundays of the month, renewed the application in Miami, which was joined by Cuban-Americans and supportive people living on US soil.
A similar action took place in the state of Maine, where calls were also made for a change of position by the administration of President Joe Biden and in support of the island for its self-determination.
In the last few hours, in Portland (Oregon), Minneapolis and Duluth, Minnesota, requests have been heard for the elimination of the unilateral fence affecting families in western India; and in Phoenix, Arizona.
The same thing happened a few days ago in Hartford, capital of the state of Connecticut, where members of movements such as Nemo (NoEmbargoCuba), the Greater Hartford Peace Council and the Connecticut Peace and Solidarity Coalition held a demonstration to demand the revocation of this policy. punitive. The actions are part of more than thirty activities designed to ask Washington to lift the blockade and carried out by a coalition of more than one hundred solidarity organizations, united under the slogan “UN Vote 4 Cuba”.
As part of the agenda, a major march was held in New York the day before, organized as a prelude to the vote on the UN General Assembly resolution on the need to end the unilateral siege of Washington, which took place on 2 to November 3.
Similarly, the Codepink association has delivered to the State Department a petition signed by more than 10,000 people and more than 100 associations, in which they asked for the removal of Cuba from the list of sponsor countries of the territory.
Cuban-American activist Carlos Lazo explained, for his part, that the call to action underscores three main demands that unite a broad sector of Americans and peace-loving people around the world.
The demands include an end to the blockade, the removal of Cuba from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism and the lifting of coercive measures that prevent travel to the island and hinder economic transactions.
In presenting the report on the impact of this fence on the island, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez recently denounced that the losses amounted to three thousand 806 million dollars between August 2021 and February 2022.
The existence of the blockade is an undeniable reality, no one could seriously affirm that it does not exist or is a mere pretext, it is tangible and reaches and harms every family in the Caribbean country, Cubans residing in the United States, American citizens and companies all over the world, of the planet, he said.
(With information from PL)
