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National
Updated
01/10/09
Time
08:00 p.m. |
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US Blockade on Cuba Still in Force, Alarcon |
 Havana,
Oct 1 - Cuban Congress President Ricardo Alarcon said on
Thursday the US economic, financial and trade blockade
against Cuba is still in force, as it was the first day.
Alarcon attended in this capital the opening of the 12th
Meeting of Commissions of Health, Labor Affairs, Social
Prevention, Legal Affairs and Economic Affairs, Social
Debt, Regional Development of the Latin American
Parliament (PARLATINO).
In his speech, he said that although the new US
administration has changed its language towards Cuba, it
maintains the blockade, which has been condemned by the
international community.
As an example of that, he recalled that President Barack
Obama extended recently the punitive measures against
Cuba, by virtue of a law passed in 1917, long before the
Cuban Revolution's victory.
The Cuban Parliament President said he was sure that
when the UN General Assembly studies the case again in
the upcoming days, with the same number votes or more,
it will condemn that blockade again.
Alarcon recalled that Washington continues supporting
giving shelter to elements as Luis Posada Carriles, a
convict who confessed to committing terrorist actions
against Cuba, Venezuela and other nations, while it
keeps five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly imprisoned.
On the contrary, the US government sentenced the five
Cubans, who were gathering information to avoid new
terrorist actions, to four life imprisonments plus 77
years in jail.
Three of them are now subject to a new sentence
decision, because after 10 years in prison, the Atlanta
Court of Appeals cancelled the previous sentences. |
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