HAVANA, Cuba, Sept 6 (acn) The President of the United States, Barak Obama, extended for another year the measures of the commercial blockade against Cuba, the White House informed on Friday.
In a memorandum sent to the secretaries of State, John Ferry, and of Treasury, Jack Lew, Obama announced his decision of keeping the blockade for considering it "of national interest for the United States," the Cubadebate Web site reported on Saturday.
The renewal of that law, which bans U.S. companies from doing business with the island, is of routine nature and his predecessors have extended it annually for over 50 years now.
The economic blockade against Cuba has been expanded and tightened with other U.S. laws, like the Torricelli, of 1992, which forbids the sending of food to Cuba –with the exception of humanitarian aid- or the Helms Burton, of 1996.
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