CUBA, February 21, 2009.- After a unanimous vote, the Mexican senate has asked U.S President Barack Obama to take actions to lift the economic, financial and commercial blockade of Cuba. The initiative came from Senators Maria de Lourdes Rojo, Yeidckol Polevnsky, Rosario Ybarra and Adriana Gonzalez, according to a Prensa Latina report. The legislators agreed to state that the blockade imposed on Cuba by Washington for nearly five decades is the longest and cruellest of such measures ever known in the history of mankind. The senators added that the blockade is an essential part of a policy marked by hostility and aggression that have failed to fulfill its goal of destroying the Revolution. Recently, the Mexican Senate passed an “amicus” to the U.S Supreme Court in relation to the case of five Cubans that have been imprisoned in American jails for more than 10 years now, for having tried to prevent criminal actions led by Miami-based groups against the Cuban people and government leaders. (Cubaminrex-RHC) |