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US Blockade on Cuba Still in Force, Alarcon
Cuban Congress President Ricardo Alarcon said on Thursday the US economic, financial and trade blockade against Cuba is still in force, as it was the first day.
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Cuban Congress President Ricardo Alarcon said on Thursday the US economic, financial and trade blockade against Cuba is still in force, as it was the first day.
Alarcon attended in this capital the opening of the 12th Meeting of Commissions of Health, Labor Affairs, Social Prevention, Legal Affairs and Economic Affairs, Social Debt, Regional Development of the Latin American Parliament (PARLATINO).
In his speech, he said that although the new US administration has changed its language towards Cuba, it maintains the blockade, which has been condemned by the international community.
As an example of that, he recalled that President Barack Obama extended recently the punitive measures against Cuba, by virtue of a law passed in 1917, long before the Cuban Revolution's victory.
The Cuban Parliament President said he was sure that when the UN General Assembly studies the case again in the upcoming days, with the same number votes or more, it will condemn that blockade again.
Alarcon recalled that Washington continues supporting giving shelter to elements as Luis Posada Carriles, a convict who confessed to committing terrorist actions against Cuba, Venezuela and other nations, while it keeps five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly imprisoned.
On the contrary, the US government sentenced the five Cubans, who were gathering information to avoid new terrorist actions, to four life imprisonments plus 77 years in jail.
Three of them are now subject to a new sentence decision, because after 10 years in prison, the Atlanta Court of Appeals cancelled the previous sentences.
Alarcon attended in this capital the opening of the 12th Meeting of Commissions of Health, Labor Affairs, Social Prevention, Legal Affairs and Economic Affairs, Social Debt, Regional Development of the Latin American Parliament (PARLATINO).
In his speech, he said that although the new US administration has changed its language towards Cuba, it maintains the blockade, which has been condemned by the international community.
As an example of that, he recalled that President Barack Obama extended recently the punitive measures against Cuba, by virtue of a law passed in 1917, long before the Cuban Revolution's victory.
The Cuban Parliament President said he was sure that when the UN General Assembly studies the case again in the upcoming days, with the same number votes or more, it will condemn that blockade again.
Alarcon recalled that Washington continues supporting giving shelter to elements as Luis Posada Carriles, a convict who confessed to committing terrorist actions against Cuba, Venezuela and other nations, while it keeps five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly imprisoned.
On the contrary, the US government sentenced the five Cubans, who were gathering information to avoid new terrorist actions, to four life imprisonments plus 77 years in jail.
Three of them are now subject to a new sentence decision, because after 10 years in prison, the Atlanta Court of Appeals cancelled the previous sentences.