Will analyze in Havana affectations of the American blockade to Cuban children

The affectations caused Cuba by the American economic blockade and especially to the children will center this Friday in the Cuban capital the debates of the final day of the Third International Encounter on Artificial Protection of the Minor Rights.

In the appointment that takes place in the of the capital Palacio of Conventions the work of the Federation of Cuban Women will also be approached in the protection of the infants in the Caribbean island and José Juan Ortiz, representative of the Fund of the United Nations for the Childhood, will impart a he confers masterful.

In spite of the economic, commercial and financier blockade imposed by the North American administrations during almost half century, Cuba has a solid juridical system in defense of the childhood, based on the respect to the Convention of the Boy's Rights and of the Code of the Family, the General District attorney of the Republic, Juan Escalona affirmed.

The reality of the minor here is completely different, because the protection of its rights begins from its conception, because the outline of health guarantees all the mothers a specialized attention during its gestation, underlined Escalona.

Emphasized that the authorities of the Caribbean island assure that the infants are vaccinated in a gratuitous way against more than 10 illnesses.

Cuba has the biggest percent of teachers and instructors for inhabitants what allows from the age preescolar that the children attend the schools and infantile circles (nursery), where are guaranteed its integral formation.

Escalona regretted that 120 million minor escolarized are not, more than 11 millions die before turning the five years of life for illnesses prevented and 150 millions suffer of malnutrition.

He added that dozen of millions works under unbearable conditions of exploitation and others live exposed to conflicts warlike and different forms of violence.

In United States - he explained - about 400 thousand infants, most Hispanic work in exposed agricultural activities to the dangers of the sharp tools and pesticides.