HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 29 (acn) Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa reiterated on Saturday his rejection of Washington’s almost fifty-year-old economic blockade of Cuba and said he hoped US President-elect Barack Obama will put an end to this policy after he assumes power next month.
According to Prensa Latina news agency, in his weekly radio and television address last Saturday, Correa sent a message of solidarity to the Cuban people and congratulated them on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
The leader said that the triumph of the Revolution in Cuba on January 1st, 1959, was a turning point in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean and a break with the traditional social and economic conditions of the region.
“Perhaps only the independence struggles of the 19th century could be compared with the Cuban Revolution. Which country of our region could resist only three months of a blockade by the United States?” Correa asked.
After recalling that Cuba has resisted for 50 years, he predicted that the Caribbean nation will be one of the most prosperous countries of Latin America and the Caribbean once the blockade is lifted due to its human talent, its technological development and the social cohesion of
the nation.
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