http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/368/16289_cuba.html
Why the US blockade on Cuba must end
10/12/2005 10:47
Havana has issued a report on "how the Bush's administration has
intensified US hostile policy against the Island"
The Cuban government has recently handed over the UN a report on how the
Bush's administration has intensified the US hostile policies against the
Island entitled: "The Need to Put an End to the Economic, Trade, and Financial
Blockade the US has imposed on Cuba," which will be discussed by the UN General
Assembly on November 8. The document emphasizes the recent obstacles that
Washington has presented against academic, scientific, cultural, and sports
exchange between both nations.
"The economic, commercial and financial blockade impose by the United
States against Cuba is the longest-lasting and cruelest of its kind know to
human history and is an essential element in the United States' hostile and
aggressive policies regarding the Cuban people", reads the report. In a long
introduction, the Castro's government resumes the history of the blockade and
the consequences it had for the development of the Cuban people.
Cuban Public Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer denounced that the US
blockade also hinders access to specialized bibliography and contact with US
top-level institutions. The minister said in a recent on-line discussion forum
that 32 of the 65 visas requested for Cuban officials and scientists to
participate in different events in the United States were denied.
According to the State run Prensa Latina news agency, despite the US
scientific counterpart's interest, the Washington's denial to grant licenses or
visas to facilitate programs with Cuban experts is a practice that has reached
irrational levels in the last years. Six semester programs for US students at
Havana University, coordinated by entities like the Center for Cross Cultural
Studies and the teaching Semester at Sea Cruiser, were cancelled during 2004.
US experts' attendance to either bilateral or international meetings in
Havana are regularly hindered, the document Cuba will present before the UN
says. According to Cuban official sources, some 50 US experts dared to
challenge that pressure when intending to attend the International
Maxillo-facial Surgery Conference in June, 2004, and their licenses to travel
were denied. A similar occurrence took place happened just before the Pan
American Youth Mental Health Congress in Havana, from March 30 to April 1, 2004.
The document concludes that all losses in 45 years of Washington's
harassment of Havana total over $82 billion. Quoted by Prensa Latina in Havana,
Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said that, "to be able to use those
funds would mean an obvious improvement of the Cubans' living conditions."
AP photo: An order issued by President John F. Kennedy on 3 February 1962
initiated decades of blockade to harass the Cuban Revolution
Hernan Etchaleco
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