US blockade of Cuba:

Still intact with Obama

UN: The new UN voting on the US blockade against Cuba will be the first one with Barack Obama in the US Presidency, but “nothing has changed since his arrival at the White House.” Statements on the blockade’s maintenance are included in a report presented in New York entitled Need to end the US economic, commercial and financial report against Cuba.

On Wednesday, the UN General Assembly will vote, for the 18th consecutive year, a resolution on the Washington-imposed blockade on the island for nearly 50 years. The text sustains that practice is “the ultimate expression of a cruel, inhuman policy, deliberately designed to cause hunger, diseases, and despair among the Cuban population.” Nothing has changed along ten successive US governments, but the reinforcement of that policy. Nothing really essential has changed either since the arrival in power of the new US government in January 2009, it adds. A month ago, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said at the UN body the blockade remains intact, and is an act of unilateral aggression that must be brought to an end.

The document spread there reads that US authorities have categorically unfulfilled the resolution adopted a year ago by the UN body, with 185 votes in favour of the blockade’s lifting, and only three against.

The current US government has continued applying the blockade with rigor, the report stresses.

It also denounces the lack of actions to dismantle the complex framework of laws and administrative dispositions linked to the blockade. United Nations, Prensa Latina