ARGENTINA, May 19, 2009. The Argentinean Senate unanimously passed a declaration demanding the lifting of the economic blockade that the United States has kept against the island for nearly 50 years. According to the document quoted today by PL news agency, the rationale to the petition by the senate states that Cuba’s economy is suffering the devastating effects of the so called "embargo," a euphemistic term used to hide a series of coercive measures and economic attacks, which are nothing but an illegal blockade. The senators pointed out that since 1992, the UN General Assembly has been approving year after year -and with a growing number of supporters- a resolution on the necessity to put an end to the blockade; however, the economic sanctions have gradually increased. It should be noted, they said, that these measures represent a flagrant violation of the peoples’ right to free determination. The document reads that the Latin America and the Caribbean Summit held last year in Salvador de Bahía, Brazil, issued a special declaration on the necessity to put an end to the siege against Cuba. "We are convinced it is time to lift the unfair, illegitimate blockade on Cuba," the Argentinean Senate document concluded. (Cubaminrex- Granma) |