HAVANA, Cuba, May 8 (acn) Discussions at an international conference on the significance of the Cuban Revolution, sponsored by the Canadian University of Queens, focused on the failure of the US policy of isolation towards Cuba.
"The best example of the failed policy is that the United States will soon be the only country in the western hemisphere without diplomatic ties with Havana," announced the head of the Cuban Foreign Ministry's North America Division, Josefina Vidal Ferreiro.
According to Prensa Latina news agency, the Cuban official said that as soon as the new government of El Salvador establishes relations with Cuba, as announced by president-elect Mauricio Funes, the defeat of Washington's isolationist policy against the Caribbean nation could be
formally announced.
Canadian professor John Kirk, who has dedicated some of his books to Cuba, said that the fact that only three countries voted last year at the UN General Assembly in favor of the blockade, shows the lack of international support for the US policy.
Meanwhile, Robert Pastor, National Security Advisor for Latin America during the US Administration of James Carter, said that the blockade did not achieve its goal and added that almost 50 years after it was implemented there have been no changes in Washington's stance towards Havana.
The opinion of panelists was shared by the audience while an activist of the Canada-Cuba Friendship Association noted that the existence of revolutionary processes in Latin American countries such as Venezuela and Bolivia, as well as the creation of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) bloc for regional integration and cooperation, also show the failure of the US anti-Cuba policy.
The University of Queens is in Kingston, a city located on the eastern side of Lake Ontario, Canada.
(Foro en Canadá condena política anticubana de EE.UU.)
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