Call in Portugal to End the US Blockade Against Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba, April 30 (acn) Voices of political and social personalities and organizations throughout the world are on the rise to demand the end of the nearly 50-year-old economic blockade of the US against Cuba.

Recently in Portugal, a call was made through one of Antena Uno’s radio programs asking for the lifting of the American measure against the island and demanding the release of the five Cuban men imprisoned in the US.

The call was made by Armanda Fonseca, president of the Portugal-Cuba Association in an interview on a radio broadcast dedicated to analyzing the first 100 days of President Barack Obama’s term, Prensa Latina reported.

Fonseca said there is no justification for maintaining the blockade imposed on Cuba nearly 50 years ago and noted that it is the only measure of its kind implemented in the world and it has been the longest one ever. She also added that it has been widely rejected and considered as genocide.

The activist said lifting the blockade and establishing normal relations with Cuba is an urgent matter for president Obama, if he is going to be consistent with the minimum ethical norms he has proclaimed.

This is also the desire of nearly the entire world, and was recently claimed at the Summit of the Americas, where Latin American countries demanded the end of the blockade, she stated.

Fonseca also noted that it was not the Cuban Revolution that sponsored terrorism against the US, while recalling that thousands of people have died in Cuba because of terrorist acts from American territory.


(Call in Portugal to End the US Blockade Against Cuba)