“As Peruvians we must understand that the blockade is not a bilateral issue between Cuba and the United States, but it involves the entire world, therein lies the significance of not remaining indifferent to this genocide,” the PPL Secretary-General Vladimir Cerrón stated.

Regarding the multilateral nature of this issue, the statement mentioned the U.S. pressures on other governments, companies, banks and even entities to join the economic blockade.

It also added these policies threaten economic, market, social and political independence and is aimed to subject those under pressure as neo-colonies, affecting their economies that has adverse impacts on their peoples´ welfare.

The PPL also condemned that the United States “persecutes every source of foreign currency income to Cuba, sanctioning and bankrupting a great number of foreign companies for trading with Cuba”.

It is natural that Cuba -under such conditions- experiences a hard situation for many Cuban families´ standard of living due to the shortage of food and medicines, impact of the hostile blockade, and also precludes Cuba from selling its products worldwide, catching foreign currency and boosting its standard of living.

“This non-conventional war, with no use of military instruments, is summed up in financial economic warfare in times of peace, as defined by the Cuban government”, the statement added.

PPL´s statement urged Peruvian government “to cast a resounding vote in rejection of the criminal economic blockade against Cuba”, as a consequence of the speech made by President Pedro Castillo past September at the UN General Assembly (UNGA)”.

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