Cuban Foreign Minister claims the US blockade endangers Cuban lives
Cuba´s Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodríguez said today that the economic, commercial, and financial US blockade is an attempt against the heath and life of his country´s population.
According to Cuban authorities, during Donald Trump´s administration (2017-2021), 243 unilateral and coercive measures were implemented against the Antillean country, 55 from such measures in 2020, in the middle of the global crisis brought by the pandemic of Covid-19. All these dispositions are still active.
The Minister pointed out on his Twitter account that the Caribbean nation faces the economic and epidemiological impacts of Covid-19, together with the opportunist strengthening of the US siege.
It is difficult to have access to faster and more expedited transportation logistic routes, so it forces to move the shipments with medical supplies through many countries, adding extra expenses.
¨Every measure in effect from the US government affects the health and life of millions of Cubans, the head of the island´s diplomacy emphasized.
A recent report from the Ambassador´s office reveals how some of these actions impacted the health sector and the fight against the health emergency.
An example was the deliberate obstruction of the import of necessary supplies, as it is shown by the refusal from the US Transportation Department to requests from airlines like IBC Airways INC and Skyway Enterprises INC to operate flights to Cuba with humanitarian aid.
It can be added that the Caribbean nation can not access medical technologies with more than 10 percent of US components. At the same time, it isn't easy to acquire more than 30 products and necessary supplies to prevent and treat Covid-19.
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