In a statement reached by Prensa Latina, the URCA emphasized its support for the report released by Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on the effects caused by “the genocidal, inhumane, and cruel blockade of the United States government.”

The Union of Cubans in Argentina, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary, emphasizes that despite the fact that the US government and “its lackeys inside and outside” the island insist on denying the existence of this criminal blockade, it is a reality more evident than ever.

More clearly evident is “the lack of raw materials for the production of essential medicines for life, fuel for electricity generation, spare parts for our thermoelectric plants, and much more, the impossibility of acquiring basic food baskets.”

URCA denounces that Washington persecutes, controls, and boycotts “any type of economic, commercial, and financial transaction that Cuba attempts to carry out; proof of this are the 140 failed operations, given the refusal of 40 banks to carry out transactions with Cuba due to the blockade and its extraterritorial nature.”

This evidence “debunks their fallacies and manipulations of the international community.”

“The Union of Cuban Residents in Argentina endorses the words of our Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, when he states that ‘No other nation faces such a prolonged, anachronistic, systemic, and extreme framework of laws and policies of aggression and coercion.'”

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