Some days before The United Nations General Assembly considers, for 19th time in a row, the resolution: “Need to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba imposed by the United States,” actions of condemnation towards the US criminal policy become stronger in Cuba and other nations of the world.

State Department announced that the seventh forum of the Cuban Civil Society against US Blockade will take place in Havana city these days, when representatives of mass organizations as well as those of political and social organizations including religious, humanitarian, cultural and fraternal type will tackle the negative impact of this policy for their organizations and population in general.

Cuban Workers Federation will also make public, from the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital of the capital, its declaration against the US blockade; likewise the International Relations Commission for the Cuban Parliament will declare against this US policy one more time.

Parallel, ministries like those of Foreign Trade, Higher Education and iron, steel and heavy metal machines Industry will provide detailed information before national and foreign press accredited in Havana on substantial losses and damages caused by the US unjust economic war imposed for more than half a century.

In addition, executives from the Havana Club Factory located in the municipality of Santa Cruz del Norte have invited journalists of diverse international newspapers to visit that factory for they to personally check how damaging the obstacles for the free commercialization of the famous rum have been, both for Cuba and the United States.

On behalf of a representative group of Cuban intellectuals and artists president of National Association of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC) Miguel Barnet, recently called all lovers of peace and justice, as well as honest people and those of good will for they to join our cause against such a crime and in defense of humanity.

Moreover, a declaration recently released in Havana by member organizations of the Secretarial Executive of the Solidarity Organization with the Peoples of Africa, Asia, Latin America (OSPAAAL), demanded the US government for the immediate lifting of the economical, financial and commercial blockade against Cuba without any conditions or demands of interference.

The document states: “We claim not to prolong for one more minute the decision to end this genocide action that violates the right of peace, it is contrary to the aims and principles of the UN letter , it is a very vicious crime against a honorable third-world country that does not abandon defense of its national independence, and it  is promised with social justice  and building of a model of development completely different from salvage and predator capitalism; it is a paradigm of genuine solidarity with other brother peoples of the world.

Meanwhile, demonstrations, statements, and actions of solidarity with the island by personalities, governments, organizations, social movements, and the media continue to carrying out from several spots of the world, which condemn the blockade and reiterate that Cuba will not be alone on October 26, when it declares itself against that US policy at the UN General Assembly.

The document to be presented at the world forum asserts: “That absurd, illegal, and morally unsustainable policy, constitutes the main obstacle for the economic development in Cuba; and it has caused $100, 154 until year 2009 at a conservative estimate.

Representing the information to the press, the foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez added that after updating those figures, the losses have amounted to $751, 000, according to the rate of inflation for the last five decades.

Rodriguez said that the US blockade has no changed at all under president Osama’s term of office, and it became worse in 2009 with fine imposition for those who traveled to Cuba without authorization or for financial institutions that dealt with the Cuban government.

For the foreign minister, if the current US head of state had will and in full possession of his constitutional faculties, he would change significant aspects of the US policy towards Cuba and would relax its sanctions, even without authorization of Legislative Congress.

A translation by: Silke Paez Carr

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