The dark side: Embargo on Cuba? by El Nacional

Yesterday the UN General Assembly turned to rain and wet against the embargo declared that the U.S. government imposed on Cuba in the sixties was in effect when the Cold War. The resolution presented by the Government of Havana managed to win 186 votes and faced 2 against, 3 abstentions and 2 absent: Libya and Sweden. It is not anything new, perhaps they like the fact that Cuban propaganda has convinced many countries that the embargo is the cause of all evils that crash on Cuba and its Communist system, which has led to the ruin of a country that always had a great potential to develop, and lost the train of history the absurd whims and follies of Fidel Castro. cynicism is striking Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, who in his speech to the UN called "the most emphatic and overwhelming support" and said "uncomfortable isolation of the aggressor country and the heroic resistance of the people refused to give up their sovereign rights. " Size lie deserves to be refuted. First, we note that the island's foreign minister has not read the speeches of President Raul Castro in which he took not only effect the embargo as an indicator of the miserable living conditions of Cubans who do not belong to the high bureaucracy, but is allowed to make jokes about the ability of officials to impute their mistakes and breaches of official plans to fellow U.S. blockade. The Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said, according to the AP, that "economic sanctions have cost about 975,000 million dollars to the island over the past 50 years. " He did not say how many lives and many years of future Cubans have lost access not what the international community has repeatedly called them and do not constitute a violation of its sovereignty, respect for human rights, democratic openness, political pluralism and freedom press and expression. Cuba has not budged an inch in this field. It would be worth asking why the island is in such poor condition despite having been subsidized by the Soviet Union millions who would buy sugar at prices above the international market, the As in the fifties was the U.S. government. 's not forget that Carlos Andres Perez, when the USSR collapsed, sent tons of frozen chicken to not starve. Then came the Spanish who injected millions of dollars in tourism and built hotels. Today, the U.S. is Cuba's fifth largest trading partner, and sells 60% of the popular consumer foods. The true however is, as Yoanni Sanchez, perpetrated against the Cuban people can not eat well, are prevented from traveling abroad and have no access to the Internet and international communications. A levy of freedom.