"An Island on a Continent"

United Nations, Oct 29^th  (Prensa Latina) The UN General Assembly began its debates on Tuesday dedicated to analyzing the impact of the United States blockade on Cuba, aggravated by the permanence of the Caribbean country on the list of alleged sponsors of terrorism.

For two days, dozens of representatives of the member states will take the podium of the plenary hall, where so many voices have rejected the application of this policy of economic, commercial and financial suffocation.

On Wednesday 30^th, the forum of 193 countries will vote on Cuba’s resolution proposal, which estimates losses worth five thousand 56.8 million dollars as a result of the blockade between March 2023 and February 29^th, 2024.

The figure represents an increase of 189.8 million compared to the previous report.

Meanwhile, the approximate monthly impact is more than 421 million dollars, more than 13.8 million dollars daily, and more than 575,683 dollars in damages for each hour of blockade.

This will be the thirty-second times the General Assembly votes on the project prepared by Cuba against this set of measures, described in these spaces as nonsensical and obsolete.

Last September, during the celebrations of the UN General Debate, dozens of representatives ratified the position of rejection of this policy, whose consequences exceed 1.499 trillion dollars after more than six decades.

In November 2023, the text received 187 votes in favor, two votes against (United States and Israel) and the abstention of one member state (Ukraine).

The legislation recognized the blockade as the central element of the United States’ policy toward Cuba for more than six decades, with unceasing effects on 80 percent of the island’s population, who know their country only through the blockade.

Since May of this year, more than 800 international statements have demanded the immediate exclusion of Cuba from the U.S. State Department’s list of alleged sponsors of terrorism.