“A new year of economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba has passed, a new year of multiple failures to comply with the overwhelming decision by this General Assembly, which has strongly rejected the blockade,” said the representative of the Plurinational State during her speech.

The speaker went on to denounce the blockade as a prolonged and inhuman attack, designed not only to suffocate the economy of a country, but to bend the will of its people.

“The Cuban people are resisting, facing deprivations that no nation deserves to endure,” she lamented.

She insisted that this policy Washington has imposed for more than six decades is unjustifiable because it is a massive, flagrant and systematic violation of the most basic human rights of an entire people.

“Extraterritorial judicial actions imply the persecution of companies, ships, and shipping companies that send essential supplies to the country,” she said.

She added that these reprisals disguised under the name of “sanctions” not only violate the sovereignty of the Cuban people, but also hinder the Government’s efforts to fight poverty and inequality.

“We are facing a threat to multilateralism and a violation of international trade and freedom of navigation norms,” warned the Bolivian diplomat.

The diplomat then reiterated that “Bolivia, once again, joins the international community in condemning and repudiating in the strongest possible terms the immoral and criminal unilateral blockade that the United States has imposed against Cuba for more than half a century.”

“My country –she confirmed– condemns the systematic interventionist actions by the hegemonic power, which draws up unilateral lists. We demand that the State Department remove Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism (…)”.

Such list – she expounded- unilaterally drawn up by Washington prevents the Caribbean island from participating of international trade and conduct financial operations.

“We demand that the blockade be lifted immediately. The struggle of the Cuban people is also that of Latin America and the Caribbean and of all the peoples of the world,” she concluded.

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