Documentary film by Sergio Gregorio

Havana, June 28 (RHC)-- A new documentary film by young Spanish filmmaker Sergio Gregori reveals details of Washington’s long and inhumane blockade policy against Cuba over the past nearly six decades. Entitled Unblock Cuba, the 86-minute audiovisual was exhibited Sunday in Madrid in the presence of Cuba Friends and those interested in learning about Cuban reality.

It includes the testimony of several Spanish, Cuban and world figures, including former Spanish foreign affairs minister José Manuel García Margallo, hero of the Republic of Cuba Gerardo Hernandez –one of the Cuban Five, who served long, unfair prison terms in the US for fighting terrorism, also former deputy director of Russia’s KGB, Nikolai Leonov, and the current Spanish minister of industry, trade and tourism Reyes Maroto.

At the exhibition, Cuban ambassador to Spain Gustavo Machín, whose testimony is included also in the documentary film, said the work is a valuable tool to understand the nature and scope of the economic siege that Cuba, a small, developing state, has been subjected to by the world’s only superpower and its impact on the everyday life of Cubans.

Special emphasis is made to the 243 additional coercive measures imposed by the Trump Administration to further tighten the blockade amidst Covid-19 and the impact on the Cuban health sector.

The Cuban diplomat commended the work of Cuban scientists who managed to develop five vaccine candidates against Covid-19, as well as the thousands of health professionals dispatched to 40 nations and territories to assist in the global fight against the pandemic.