US-Cuba Blockade Unbearable
Madrid
Oct 13
The US blockade on Cuba is unbearable and shows to what point those who apply it act like the military police of the world, Spanish academic Andres Sorel denounced Friday.
Author of over 50 books, among them novels "El Falangista vencido" and "Desarmado," and the essay "Siglo XX: tiempo de canallas," Sorel commented to Prensa Latina on the issue and the situation of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in the US.
The US blockade on Cuba, applied since the moment in which the nation achieved its independence and socialism, first damages island s economic development and second, people' s own freedom, said the outstanding academic.
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Forum discusses extraterritorial nature of blockade
by JOEL MAYOR LORAN — Granma International staff writer
THE company Dresser Rand Group Inc, based in New York, which manufactures turbines and compressors for the energy industry, announced that it faces sanctions from the U.S. government because of the business that its subsidiary in Brazil does with the Cuban-Canadian joint Moa Níquel S.A, which is why those operations were brought to a halt in July 2005.
That was one of the examples described in the forum-debate at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, via internet, given that the websites cubaminrex and cubavsbloqueo invited anyone interested to learn about the extraterritorial nature of legislation against Cuba.
In just two hours, 137 messages were received from Switzerland, Germany, Bulgaria, Argentina, the Czech Republic, the United States and other nations, totaling 28 in all. In addition, 30 internet users sent messages of solidarity.
Ndaniso Banda, of Zambia, wanted to know about the effects of extraterritorial trade sanctions on third countries. Raúl de la Nuez, minister of foreign trade, provided him with the example of the Dresser Rand case, and revealed that the U.S. Treasury Department imposed a $171.3 million fine on the company for doing business with Cuba.
Those who responded to the forum were also able to learn about the new restrictions imposed by Washington, the consequences for Cuban cooperation with the Third World, the position of the European Union, and measures to counteract the adverse effects of this Yankee policy.
Oct 13
The US blockade on Cuba is unbearable and shows to what point those who apply it act like the military police of the world, Spanish academic Andres Sorel denounced Friday.
Author of over 50 books, among them novels "El Falangista vencido" and "Desarmado," and the essay "Siglo XX: tiempo de canallas," Sorel commented to Prensa Latina on the issue and the situation of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in the US.
The US blockade on Cuba, applied since the moment in which the nation achieved its independence and socialism, first damages island s economic development and second, people' s own freedom, said the outstanding academic.
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Forum discusses extraterritorial nature of blockade
by JOEL MAYOR LORAN — Granma International staff writer
THE company Dresser Rand Group Inc, based in New York, which manufactures turbines and compressors for the energy industry, announced that it faces sanctions from the U.S. government because of the business that its subsidiary in Brazil does with the Cuban-Canadian joint Moa Níquel S.A, which is why those operations were brought to a halt in July 2005.
That was one of the examples described in the forum-debate at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, via internet, given that the websites cubaminrex and cubavsbloqueo invited anyone interested to learn about the extraterritorial nature of legislation against Cuba.
In just two hours, 137 messages were received from Switzerland, Germany, Bulgaria, Argentina, the Czech Republic, the United States and other nations, totaling 28 in all. In addition, 30 internet users sent messages of solidarity.
Ndaniso Banda, of Zambia, wanted to know about the effects of extraterritorial trade sanctions on third countries. Raúl de la Nuez, minister of foreign trade, provided him with the example of the Dresser Rand case, and revealed that the U.S. Treasury Department imposed a $171.3 million fine on the company for doing business with Cuba.
Those who responded to the forum were also able to learn about the new restrictions imposed by Washington, the consequences for Cuban cooperation with the Third World, the position of the European Union, and measures to counteract the adverse effects of this Yankee policy.
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Friday, October 13, 2006
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