CUBA, February 13, 2010. Restrictions established by the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba prevented French surfer Martin Gaverieux from fulfilling his dream of traveling on a sailboard from US to Cuba. Prensa Latina reported today that the young French engineer wrote on his personal bloc that he had planned to sail from Key West to Havana for which he had already obtained permission from the Cuban authorities. Gaverieux explained that the journey was expected to taken nine hours and that he was going to be accompanied by a ship from where his deed would have been recorded. The surfer said the US Treasury Department did not allow him to undertake the project even when Washington’s embassy in Paris had already granted him the required permits. In statement to PL, Cuban ambassador to France Orlando Requeijo said this was a concrete demonstration of the extraterritorial nature of the US blockade which is not flexible even when dealing with a citizen from a White House-allied country. |