Ibero-American Summit Denounces US Blockade of Cuba
The Bush administration was shocked this past week by the unanimous adoption of a resolution denouncing the US blockade of Cuba at the Ibero-American summit in Salamanca, Spain.
The 22-nation member meeting of the leaders of Spain, Portugal, and Latin American countries also sternly criticized the White House's failure to extradite former CIA operative and Venezuelan secret policeman Luis Posada Carriles, wanted in Venezuela for various crimes.
Posada is known to have admitted his participation in a terrorist bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 that killed 73 people. The call for Posada's extradition came as part of a Cuba-authored resolution against terrorism.
Prensa Latina reported that the summit also rejected "unilateral and coercive measures" aimed at Cuba by the US and projected a defense of free exchange and transparent trade practices.
The resolution, adopted over the shrill objections of the White House, represented an "unequivocal signal of support for the Cuban people," commented Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque.
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/2029/1/124/
A system that has allowed and given every Cuba an opportunity to self-realization and allowed the nation the greatest opportunity to develop it natural resources as well as indigenously manage its resources.
The Cuba people and the government of President Fidel Castro have been remarkably successful in managing their economy when compared to most developing countries around the world. Certainly, the United States seems unpleased with Cubans effort at self-realization and self-sufficiency.
If President Fidel Castro can so effectively manage and sustain the economy in the face of the US economic embargo, one would imagine what the state of the Cuban would have been if the embargo was not placed in the first instance.
According to Cuban Foreign Minister, Mr. Felipe, "the blockade is illegal. It violates the Charter of the United Nations - and infringes on international trade and the freedom of navigation. It imposes sanctions on businesspeople from third countries, which is a blatantly extraterritorial conduct.
Consequently, the economic sanction against Cuban is unethical and has no legal justification as it completely violates the United Nations Geneva Conventions on international relationship, and human rights stipulations, given that the economic embargo has for more than forty years now, consistently deprives hard working Cuban people of access to proper food and medicine. The blockade is the main obstacle to Cuba's economic development today and is responsible for the hardships and suffering of millions of Cubans
Notwithstanding repeated resolution by the UN requesting the US to end the embargo, the US has consistently refused yet, has seemingly not forced to comply.
Yet the US failed to comply. Interestingly, it is the same United States that used military power to compel the erstwhile Saddam Hussein to comply with UN resolution. What a hypocritical approach to international diplomacy. In addition, the previous resolutions requesting the United States to repeal its "extraterritorial laws" that enabled the embargo against Cuba and other actions extraterritorial actions against other nations, have failed to be adhered by the United States.
http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=135&a=5507&sid=889c8a87f6f0c41bb354c43e2f3ae0e2
The Bush administration was shocked this past week by the unanimous adoption of a resolution denouncing the US blockade of Cuba at the Ibero-American summit in Salamanca, Spain.
The 22-nation member meeting of the leaders of Spain, Portugal, and Latin American countries also sternly criticized the White House's failure to extradite former CIA operative and Venezuelan secret policeman Luis Posada Carriles, wanted in Venezuela for various crimes.
Posada is known to have admitted his participation in a terrorist bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 that killed 73 people. The call for Posada's extradition came as part of a Cuba-authored resolution against terrorism.
Prensa Latina reported that the summit also rejected "unilateral and coercive measures" aimed at Cuba by the US and projected a defense of free exchange and transparent trade practices.
The resolution, adopted over the shrill objections of the White House, represented an "unequivocal signal of support for the Cuban people," commented Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque.
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/2029/1/124/
A system that has allowed and given every Cuba an opportunity to self-realization and allowed the nation the greatest opportunity to develop it natural resources as well as indigenously manage its resources.
The Cuba people and the government of President Fidel Castro have been remarkably successful in managing their economy when compared to most developing countries around the world. Certainly, the United States seems unpleased with Cubans effort at self-realization and self-sufficiency.
If President Fidel Castro can so effectively manage and sustain the economy in the face of the US economic embargo, one would imagine what the state of the Cuban would have been if the embargo was not placed in the first instance.
According to Cuban Foreign Minister, Mr. Felipe, "the blockade is illegal. It violates the Charter of the United Nations - and infringes on international trade and the freedom of navigation. It imposes sanctions on businesspeople from third countries, which is a blatantly extraterritorial conduct.
Consequently, the economic sanction against Cuban is unethical and has no legal justification as it completely violates the United Nations Geneva Conventions on international relationship, and human rights stipulations, given that the economic embargo has for more than forty years now, consistently deprives hard working Cuban people of access to proper food and medicine. The blockade is the main obstacle to Cuba's economic development today and is responsible for the hardships and suffering of millions of Cubans
Notwithstanding repeated resolution by the UN requesting the US to end the embargo, the US has consistently refused yet, has seemingly not forced to comply.
Yet the US failed to comply. Interestingly, it is the same United States that used military power to compel the erstwhile Saddam Hussein to comply with UN resolution. What a hypocritical approach to international diplomacy. In addition, the previous resolutions requesting the United States to repeal its "extraterritorial laws" that enabled the embargo against Cuba and other actions extraterritorial actions against other nations, have failed to be adhered by the United States.
http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=135&a=5507&sid=889c8a87f6f0c41bb354c43e2f3ae0e2
