China: Intellectuals and friends of Cuba in China added their voices to the international rejection of the economic, financial and commercial blockade that the United States has maintained for just six decades against the Caribbean country, Prensa Latina reports.
The researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, He Qin, denounced that this policy is the greatest obstacle to the development of the Island and demanded its immediate cessation, considering it the most anti-human behavior of the 21st century.
Peace, development, equity, justice, democracy and freedom are the common values ??of all humanity, today no citizen of the world with a conscience would agree with the blockade against Cuba, the academic said.
He Qin also highlighted that in extremely difficult circumstances, the Antillean nation has achieved important achievements in sectors such as education, health, environmental protection and biopharmaceuticals.
France describes the blockade against Cuba as genocidal
The solidarity association France Cuba described as murderous, criminal and genocidal the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on the island, on the 60th anniversary of the officialization of that policy.
The organization denounced the resurgence by successive administrations in the White House of politics, destined to suffocate an entire country and its extraterritorial nature with the Torricelli and Helms Burton laws.
Likewise, he repudiated the adoption by President Donald Trump of 243 measures to tighten the fence, 60 of them decreed in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, which have been maintained by his successor, Joe Biden.
On behalf of the solidarity association, its president, Didier Philippe, recognized the resistance of Cubans and ratified the support for the Caribbean country and its Revolution.
Spain classifies blockade against Cuba as an act of war
The July 26 Collective of Solidarity with Cuba in Spain described the US blockade against the Caribbean island as an act of war and genocide.
The group recalled that this February 3 marks the 60th anniversary of the officialization of the economic, commercial and financial siege imposed on Cuba by the administration of John F. Kennedy in 1962.
Euphemistically called an embargo by the United States and its acolytes, it is extraterritorial in nature and has generated losses of between two and four billion dollars a year for 60 years, damages for which Washington should compensate Cuba, he stressed.
?It does not allow the development of Cuba, affecting all levels: health, education, sports, international trade, transportation, food, causing difficulties and suffering for the Cuban population, the text added.