The Cuba government says 61 years after the signing of Proclamation 3447, which established the imposition of an economic, commercial, and financial blockade by the United States, the system is the most severe, prolonged, and inhumane applied against any nation.
In a statement posted on Twitter on Friday – the anniversary of the signing of the proclamation, Cuba’s foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla recalled the approval of the policy that was enforced by then U.S. President John F. Kennedy and pointed out that for more than 60 years Cubans have faced unjust aggression.
According to official figures, the accumulated damage during six decades of application of this policy amount to more than US$154.2 billion and taking into account the behavior of the dollar against the value of gold in the international market, the quantifiable damages reach US$391.1 billion dollars.
Rodriguez Parrilla has on several occasions said the U.S. blockade was carefully designed, targeting each one of Cuba’s main sources of income, viciously seeking to increase the impact on the daily life of the population.
According to Cuban authorities, the siege has tightened in recent years to unprecedented levels, and an example of this is that only between August 2021 and February 2022, the island recorded losses of 3,806.5 billion dollars, a figure 49 percent higher than that reported January-July 2021.
According to the Cuban government, the US persists in ignoring this result and has tightened the blockade to unprecedented levels, applying a policy of economic choking to deliberately seek the collapse of the country.
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