Presented report “Cuba vs blockade 2010” at the University of the West Indies of Barbados. BARBADOS, October 25, 2010.- A debate on US blockade against Cuba took place in the Faculty of Humanities of the University of the West Indies (Cave Hills Campus). In the occasion of the 19th time voting of the Cuban Draft Resolution "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the USA government against Cuba", in the General Assembly of United Nations, the Department of History and Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of the West Indies (Cave Hills Campus) in Barbados organized a fruitful debate between representatives of the cloister and students with Orestes Hernández, Consellour of the Cuban delegation accredited. The event started with a minute of silence in honour to the recently missing Primer Minister, David Thompson, and continued with the remarks of Professor Frederick Ochieng '-Odhiambo, Chief of the Department of History and Philosophy, who was grateful for the solidarity of Cuba at this difficult hour for Barbados and recalled criteria and valuations on the politics of USA towards the island. Afterwards, the representative of Cuba presented details of the economic cost and especially social ones that has had the blockade for the Cuban people, as well as described the historical precedents that frame this policy in the obsession of the dominant North American class to get hold of Cuba. At the end of the intervention, there took place an interesting Q and A session in presence of Pedro Welch, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, in which it was possible to penetrate in addition into details on the managing that US has done on the migratory topic and the taken and worn matter of supposed "dissents” in Cuba. "Tomorrow on October 26 - the Cuban diplomat concluded - the immense majority of the international community will demonstrate again that USA is isolated in his policy against Cuba and that the blockade will be raised because of the resistance of the Cuban people and the international solidarity as well". (Cubaminrex - Embacuba Barbados)
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