On February 7, 1962, then-President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, using Section 620a of the Foreign Assistance Act of September 1961, declared the total blockade of the island. Image: Twitter
Caracas, Feb 7 (RHC) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro assured that "we will never get tired of denouncing before the world" the total blockade of the United States against Cuba, 61 years after it was officialized.
On his Twitter account, the ruler branded it as an act of cruelty that the policy violates the human rights of Cubans, who courageously decided to fight and not surrender in the face of imperial impositions.
On February 7, 1962, the then-President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, in compliance with a mandate of Congress, using Section 620a of the Foreign Assistance Act of September 1961, declared the total blockade of the island.
Earlier, on February 3, the president signed executive order 3447 which made the criminal policy official. Havana considers this policy the most comprehensive, complex, and prolonged system of unilateral coercive measures ever imposed against any country in history.
Cuba's report last year to the United Nations General Assembly, entitled "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba", pointed out that the blockade is the main obstacle to development.
According to the U.S. government, the blockade "is one of the most complete sets of sanctions" imposed on any country, for which reason the Cuban authorities qualify it as an act of genocide due to its declared purpose and the political, legal, and administrative framework.
The official data revealed in the aforementioned document indicated that, at current prices, the accumulated damages during six decades of application of this policy amount to 150,410.8 million dollars.
According to the source, if the depreciation of the dollar against the value of gold on the international market is taken into account, the blockade has caused damages of more than 1,326,432 billion dollars.
Former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), intensified this policy with the implementation of more than 240 new sanctions, most of which are maintained by the current administration of Joe Biden. (Source: PL)
