At the headquarters of the intergovernmental organization, in western Caracas, the doctor in International Law spoke with Prensa Latina about various topics, including the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba for more than six decades.
The master in international business underscored that SELA member countries have always been “very consistent” in approving year after year a declaration of support for Havana.
He added that the organization had even been tasked with monitoring the economic effects of this policy, a role that was later assumed by the United Nations and “SELA is only monitoring it.”
According to the Bolivian expert, from the point of view of integration, “unilateral sanctions seriously affect the intercommunication that should exist in the region.”
If you have a partner that cannot communicate commercially and logistically with the rest of the countries, “what you are doing is breaking those lines of communication within the existing integration,” he added.
Endara stressed that it is “an affront to integration itself” because how do we achieve that fluidity of communication with the sanctioned countries, when the “sanctions only threaten the economic operators that are the ones that could give life to that exchange,” he added.
The expert stated that the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System has tried to support this claim in the best possible way, first, to identify the problem, rationalize it and from there call for awareness.
It is about seeing “until what moment will it be thought that unilateral measures can be effective for the change of an economic model in a country,” he said.
What they are affecting is “the social and human development of the people who live in that State,” the former deputy minister for Foreign Trade and Integration of the Bolivian Foreign Ministry noted.
Prensa Latina will soon release the rest of the conversation with the Bolivian ambassador, who addressed important issues of current Latin American and Caribbean affairs, close to SELA’s 50th anniversary in October, whose validity in the defense of integration remains intact. jg/lam/jcd