The Cuban Association of the United Nations (ACNU) will hold, on October 24, the 21st Forum of the Cuban Civil Society against the Blockade, a space for denunciation and reflection on the effects of this policy that violates human rights and hinders national development.
The meeting, which will take place in the context of the upcoming vote at the UN against the economic siege, will delve into the human, social and economic consequences that this measure generates in the daily life of the Cuban people.
Recently, the member of the Political Bureau and chancellor, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, presented a report that quantifies the effects of the blockade in the last year at $7,556.1 million, a conservative estimate that does not include psychological damage to the population.
For more than six decades, the blockade has caused cumulative losses of over $170 billion, a figure that demonstrates the genocidal nature of this long-term policy of economic suffocation.
Rodríguez Parrilla emphasized that more than 80% of Cubans were born and lived under the effects of the blockade, a tangible reality that manifests itself in the daily deprivations faced by families. The Forum therefore stands as a space for mobilization to demand an immediate end to this unjust and illegal policy.
