Havana, January 16 RHC)-- Cubans and Americans are holding virtually this Saturday a meeting in solidarity with the island and in rejection of the economic, commercial and financial blockade that Washington has maintained on the Caribbean nation for almost six decades.

The event, sponsored by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), will focus on the damages caused in the agricultural sector, so the Cuban panelists will be joined by US congressmen and farmers from the state of Minnesota.

ICAP directors and representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Agriculture of Cuba, as well as farmers and members of agricultural cooperatives, will denounce the damage they face daily due to the coercive measures imposed by the White House.

Meanwhile, the U.S. participants will address the obstacles that their government's policy imposes on them to trade with the largest of the West Indies, despite the wide interest they show in it, particularly food producers.

The Facebook profile and the Youtube channel of @SiempreconCuba will be the spaces through which the exchange will take place, and to which solidarity movements with the island from different parts of the world should connect to learn more about the issue.

According to the report that the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents every year to the United Nations General Assembly, the effects of the blockade on the agricultural sector reached, during the period from April 2019 to March 2020, values of 428,894,637 dollars.

These damages are basically due to the impossibility of accessing the US market, both to acquire products, inputs and equipment, and to directly export some Cuban items.