Havana, Cuba: Damage for more than 55 million dollars causes the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States to Cuba, to the Communications System in Cuba, from April 2018 to March this year, Radio Habana Cuba publishes.

The figure was specified in a Public Hearing held at the headquarters of the entity, where the deputies of the Service Attention Commission of the National Assembly of People's Power participated, as well as the Vice President of Parliament, Ana María Mary Machado and the head of the sector, Jorge Luis Perdomo Dilella.

More than 300 workers, specialists and managers, participated in the room where they were interconnected with entities of the 14 provinces and the special municipality Isla de la Juventud.

It was known that the most affected companies are those of Telecommunications of Cuba, ETECSA, SEGURMATICA, the one of computer applications, DESOFT. Likewise, the effects of the insane political groups of the Correos de Cuba business and Information Technology and Communications, which includes RADIOCUBA and CUBATEL, suffer.

More than 95 percent of the amount of the affectations is concentrated in ETECSA and its President Mayra Arevich, explained how difficult it is to receive technologies, every day more expensive, with variable of the percentage of American components.

She adds that with the talent of specialists they combine several platforms from different suppliers to achieve the same goal, but that makes each day more expensive, difficult to obtain, to which problems with soft financing are added, as to any other country , an important barrier to the acquisition and development of technologies.

"The Helms Burton Law not only affects all sectors, it is an interference with national sovereignty and that of other countries," the president said.

The blockade imposes technological limitations on sites that guarantee training and the ability of specialists to respond to the Cuban communications system, which affects state-owned and non-state-owned companies, as pointed out by the young Carlos Miguel Pérez, a self-employed worker.

Minister Jorge Luis Perdomo said “to those who say that the problems are ours, why not remove the blockade instead of hardening it and use it as a subversion technique against Cuba? They know that if they eliminate it we will develop faster, with the effort of all sectors of the country. ”

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