European Parliament holds forum against U.S. blockade

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 16 (ACN) The European Parliament is holding today a forum on the effects of the U.S. blockade of Cuba, attended by two deputies of the Island's legislature, namely Félix Martínez Suárez, president of the Economic Commission, and Enrique Alemán Gutiérrez, who is also an academic and religious scholar.

Two panels will address the tightening of the blockade and its impact on the Cuban population, the extraterritorial effects of this policy after the reenactment by Donald Trump of Titles III and IV of the Helms Burton Act, and the actions of the European Union to counteract them.

The international community recently voted in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) against the said U.S. Cuba policy, with 185 votes in favor of the end of the blockade. There were two votes against (United States and Israel) and two abstentions (Brazil and Ukraine).

Cuba has denounced that the U.S. government keeps ignoring this result and has even reinforced the blockade deliberately in an attempt to stifle the country.

On November 3, while addressing the UNGA, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla described this policy as an act of genocide and a policy of war to bring the Cuban economy to a standstill and create a situation of ungovernability in the country.