“There is an urgent need to end this blockade, which constitutes an attack on European competition in economic matters,” said Raoul Hedebouw, federal parliamentarian president of the Belgian Labor Party (PTB), during an interview with Prensa Latina.
Hedebouw questioned why European companies have to be sanctioned for trading with Cuba. “The EU should have a policy of territorial integrity and autonomy to challenge this blockade, and I hope that the Third Summit (EU-CELAC) will make progress in this regard,” he said.
On the same issue, the president of the Communist Party of Spain, José Luis Centella, stressed that the blockade against Cuba cannot continue for another minute. “We have to say it loud and clear, we have to end a blockade that is illegal and that condemns a country for the simple right to want to be free,” he told Prensa Latina.
The political leader highlighted the rejection of the policy and the call made during the People’s Summit to hold an International Tribunal in November to judge and denounce the blockade.
“We cannot forget that Washington’s siege against Cuba also harms Europe,” said Centella, who joined the demand that the United States remove Cuba from the list of states sponsors of terrorism. “The United States sends planes and soldiers, Cuba doctors and teachers, how is it possible that it is on that ignominious list,” he said.
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