US Blockade Against Cuba Tightened Despite New Measures
US Blockade Against Cuba Tightened Despite New Measures
Havana, Sep 16 (Prensa Latina) Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said today that despite the measures announced by US President Barack Obama, in recent years the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba was tightened.
"Despite the measures announced by President Barack Obama on December 17, 2014 and its declared willingness to get involved in a debate with Congress to lift the blockade, the laws and regulations holding this policy continue in force and are applied rigurously by US government agencies," said Rodriguez in a press conference.
Rodriguez presented the report on the resolution 69/5 of the UN General Assembly titled "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America on Cuba," a policy that has been in force for over half a century.
Despite the new situation, in the period 2014-2015 the blockade has remained tightened in its financial and extraterrotorial nature, which can be seen through the millions of dollars in fines imposed against banks and financial institutions as a resuilt of the persecution of Cuban financial transactions," says the text.
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