Forum against the Blockade Sessions at Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples

The world joins in this forum against the blockade Photo: Granma newspaper.

Havana_ The online forum and twitter action convened for Monday by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) pronounces against the economic, financial and commercial blockade that the United States (USA) maintains against the island for almost 60 years, according to the Granma newspaper's website.

The panel, entitled "The world against the blockade", is moderated by the journalist and Head of the International Writing of the Granma newspaper, Bertha Mojena Milian. Participating in the debate are Deputy Dr. Enrique Alemán, President of the Spiritist Association of Havana and the Quisibuaba community project, the Master Jonathan Quiros Santos, Researcher of the Center for Research and Studies of the World Economy, and Dr. Jorge Hernández, Professor and researcher at the Center for Hemispheric Studies and the United States (CEHSEU) of the University of Havana.

The debates, which will have an intense interactivity through Facebook and Twitter, will be extended between 10:00 and 12:00 hours today, and take place in the context of the World Day «We have Memory: Solidarity against the Blockade and Terrorism »started on September 4 and the will end on October 6, 2018

To share the details of the forum and exchange with the panelists, the labels #Cuba, #NoMasBlock and #UnblockCuba are available.

In its annual report 2018 on the economic and social damage caused to Cuba by the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States for 60 years, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs notes that the US administration "imposed a serious setback to the bilateral relations", after the official resumption in 2015 under the governments of Barack Obama and Raul Castro. In 2017 Trump signed the "Presidential National Security Memorandum on Strengthening US Policy towards Cuba," a document that implied a tightening of the blockade.

On October 31, the UN General Assembly will vote again on a draft resolution on the need to end the blockade, proposed by Cuba. It will be the twenty-seventh consecutive year in which the voting of the initiative takes place, which since 1992 has won annually, the majority support in the main deliberative body of the United Nations. The 2017 vote only registered opposition from the United States and Israel.